The importance of Mycoplasma bovis in causing and contributing to respiratory disease in cattle has been highlighted over recent years, however, it still remains a significant challenge to UK farmers....
TB control is in the news because of Geronimo the alpaca. There are so many angles to this story. These include social ones, such as whether it is right to cull an animal without clinical disease...
The global pandemic of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that is the cause of the serious life-threatening disease known as COVID-19, has focused attention on the control of infectious diseases in people and in...
A first lactation, 28-month-old Holstein dairy cow was presented at a routine fertility visit at 47 days in milk for ‘oestrus not observed’. The cow had been examined at a previous routine fertility...
Making decisions ‘cow-side’ to select those clinical mastitis cases that are unlikely to benefit from treatment with antibiotic has become an area of considerable interest in the research literature...
The definition of FTPI has often been stated to be a serum IgG concentration of less than 10 mg/ml. While calves with serum IgG concentration below this cutpoint are consistently found to be at...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) limits the ability to prevent and treat infection, making it one of the foremost threats to human and animal health. Animal agriculture's use of antibiotics in food...
AMR rarely causes clinical problems on dairy farms, so although AMR is causing increased global concern, it can be hard for the farmer-veterinary surgeon team to relate to this practically when...
Historically, formulations of CMR have differed significantly from WM in their levels of energy, protein and minerals. Energy source is one of the major differences, and arguably one of the most...
In a meta-analysis undertaken by Santos et al (2021) (Journal of Dairy Science10.3168/jds.2018-14628) the literature was systematically reviewed, searching randomised experiments with transition cows...
The cognitive ability of farm animals has been studied with increasing prevalence and it has become evident that many species have more complex abilities than previously thought (Nawroth et al, 2019).
Epigenetics describes influences on and effects of differences in gene expression. DNA contains a code made out of genes which encode proteins/enzymes. Proteins are produced in the processes of...