Tom Angel

The Royal Veterinary College, Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College

Cattle

A brief review of bovine dystocia: risk factors, causes, approach and outcomes

For the sake of this article, short-term risk factors of dystocia are those that occur from the point of conception. The author will discuss these chronologically, starting with the breeding of the...

Figure 1. Heifers at grass during breeding season.
Cattle

The use of fixed time artificial insemination programmes for the use of sexed semen in block calving dairy heifers

The minimum requirement for success of any synchronisation programme is (Carvalho et al, 2018):.

Figure 3. On-farm culture is increasingly utilised on farm to identify cases of mastitis that may not require treatment with antibiotics.
Cattle

Practical use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in farm practice

NSAIDs work by targeting the pro-inflammatory pathway and preventing synthesis of proinflammatory substances. They prevent the conversion of arachidonic acid into prostaglandins and thromboxane, by...