In updating our position, we recognised a number of things. First, that as a representative body for veterinary surgeons throughout the UK, we wanted to be able to consider how TB in cattle affected...
Bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) is a costly disease and its eradication is the focus of the English voluntary scheme, BVDFree. The process of identifying a farm as negative or not negative is...
A descriptive review of the literature was conducted using the Cattle Lameness Literature database (www.cattle-lameness.org.uk), the RCVS library Discovery database, ScienceDirect and Google Scholar....
Animal tuberculosis is a multi-host disease caused by members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Due to its impact on the economy, sanitary standards of the milk and meat industry, public...
In temperate regions, cattle and sheep graze diurnally; from late spring to early autumn between 65 and 100% of grazing typically takes place during daylight hours (Hughes and Reid, 1951; Hancock,...
The purpose of this article is to provide a brief summary of developments over the >30 years since these initial results were published, with emphasis on what is applicable to the UK and Ireland....
Adequate lying time is considered an important aspect of cow welfare. Tucker et al (2021) (Journal of Dairy Sciencehttps://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2019-18074) examined what is known about cows' motivation...
When challenged about apparent CM treatment failure on farm, it is important to first establish what ‘type’ of CM cases the client is treating — are these first clinical cases in lactation, recurrent...
Some of the organism's characteristics have a direct effect on antibiotic treatment choices. As the organism has no cell wall B lactam antibiotics are ineffective. The organism does not synthesise...
As for many diseases, the accurate and early diagnosis of BRD is a critical step in the implementation of effective therapeutics. The variability in how animals respond to the disease, along with...
The first step in assessing a herd is to identify the risk of current infection by evaluating biosecurity and management. Primarily, this should focus on incoming stock (purchased animals and existing...
