Animal Health

With Haemonchus contortus increasingly prevalent across the UK, sheep farmers are encouraged to widen their worm monitoring programmes to include adult ewes. Farmers Guardian reports.

Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) enforcement officers say the sale or transfer of surplus vaccine presents significant risks to animal health

Getting the timing right on health decisions can make the difference between a weanling that continues to thrive and one that struggles through a stressful period. Ellie Layton reports.

Warm and wet conditions have kept blowfly strike on the agenda with flock owners encouraged not to assume risks have passed

Concerns over rendering capacity and costs have been raised after bluetongue outbreaks this year

This investment has been coordinated through UK Research and Innovation, with co-funding from Defra, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Department for Health and Social Care

Farmers hit with more disease woes as H5N5 found on Isle of Lewis

Industry backs move to ease trade while urging farmers to vaccinate livestock

Everything livestock farmers need to know about the current status of bluetongue disease in the UK, how to spot signs and symptoms, and what actions they can take to prevent it