02 September 2020 02 Sep 2020

Volume 25 | Issue 5

ISSN (Print): 2053-0862

ISSN (Online): 2053-0870

Economics and welfare hand in hand

2020 has certainly been original. World events appear to have superceeded domestic ones, and despite discussing them ad nauseum at times, we still aren't sure of the long-term impact of some of these events. It would be a brave person to predict 2021. But that is what many of our clients are having to do at the moment; plan for the next year without knowing what it will hold.

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

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

Figure 4. Extension to dry cow yard (herd F).

Dry cow environment management and mastitis control in dairy herds

Figure 3. Example of additional outside space for dairy cattle.

Understanding the social behaviour of dairy cattle can benefit welfare and productivity

Figure 4. Measuring the internal pelvic width with the Rice pelvimeter, with the measurement taken from the level of the poas tubercles to measure the widest point of the pelvis.

Pre-breeding heifer examination and selection in UK beef herds

Cattle Review: September–October 2020

Figure 1. Levels of evidence in ascending order of reliability.

Evidence-based veterinary medicine: searching the evidence in practice

Figure 1. Pie charts demonstrating number of selections under profession sector categories for (i) experienced (n = 147 examples from 110 individuals) and (ii) witnessed (n = 110 examples from 72 individuals) incidents.

Courageous Conversations: discrimination faced by students undertaking production animal clinical EMS

Figure 5. Demonstration, in a goat kid, of the technique for examining the conjunctival surface of the lower eyelid, the basis of FAMACHA© scoring.

Haemonchosis: dealing with the increasing threat of the barber's pole worm