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Clinical nutrition – fatty liver disease

Whilst vital for healthy livestock, nutrition is an area that does not always involve the farm vet, as Dan Stevenson...

Dan Stevenson

Mastitis in ewes – an overview

Farm animal vet Lucy Hepworth provides an overview of clinical mastitis and explains why every flock should have a treatment...

Lucy Hepworth
Red Tractor to strengthen inspection programme

Red Tractor to strengthen inspection programme

Red Tractor has announced plans to carry out more unannounced farm animal inspections. Organisation to launch its first ever television...

Campaign to remind farmers of the importance of vaccines

Campaign to remind farmers of the importance of vaccines

The uptake of vaccines in the sheep and cattle sectors is generally low. #VaccinesWork to highlight variations in vaccine penetration...

ASF will ‘almost certainly’ spread to other Asian countries

ASF will ‘almost certainly’ spread to other Asian countries

To date, nearly 40,000 infected animals have been culled in China, in an attempt to limit the spread. (Stock photo)...

Dry summer may not have killed liver fluke

Dry summer may not have killed liver fluke

It is even more important in a dry year to carry out a liver fluke assessment. Parasite groups issue warning...