Animal health
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TB: getting to grips with the ‘uncontrollable’
TB: getting to grips with the ‘uncontrollable’. Put into practice some simple and achievable biosecurity measures, and start to manage the seemingly uncontrollable.
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Industry Embraces New Johne’s Tracker
Dairy management companies, including milk recording organisations NMR and CIS, have embraced a new Johne’s progress tracker developed by the Johne’s Action Group.
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Pin Point High Cell Count to Avoid Penalties
Testing milk samples from dairy cows will help pinpoint the high cell count cows in the herd to avoid milk buyer penalties.
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What is Neospora
Neospora Caninum is a protozoan parasite that is an important infectious cause of weak calves and abortion in cattle.
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Treatment Page feature added to MobileHerd
Treatment Page feature added to MobileHerd – Download the new version of the app now.
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Monitor Herds for Johne’s
Johne’s disease is a chronic, debilitating and irreversible disease of ruminants caused by infection with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP).
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Vet Focus: Why fertility is the answer to productivity
With the various challenges the industry has been facing in recent years, everyone has been looking at efficiency and cost-cutting in all aspects of their farm businesses. Ian Cure
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Feed Focus: Achieving a successful transition
A successful transition cow system will result in giving the cow the best possible start to what is hopefully a profitable lactation, however significant health and production issu
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Farmer Focus: Stephen Bone
5 years ago, Stephen decided to start regular milk testing with the intention of identifying the level of Johne’s in the herd with the long term aim of controlling and eradicatin
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Testing for Johne's Disease
Johne’s disease is a fatal wasting disease of cattle, and is an increasing problem on farms across the UK. Dan Humphries from Leonard, Lambert & May Farm Veterinary Surgeons gives