animal health

In this week’s Farmers Guardian podcast, head of livestock, Katie Jones, talks to Wiltshire vet, Mel McPherson about the threat posed by Schmallenberg and bluetongue this year

Developing standard operating procedures for biosecurity can have a positive impact on hygiene in the calf rearing sheds

A focus on the milking routine can be a useful tool to help reduce mastitis incidence and vets can play an important role in this

Aims of health risk management on suckler farms can be to optimise the fertility, animal survival and growth rates over each single production season

So my time on Defra's Bovine TB Partnership has unexpectedly come to an end. My three-year term ended and was disappointingly, for me, not extended

To prevent lead and copper poisoning this grazing season, farmers are being urged to follow five steps

In his latest article, New Zealand vet Rory Dean, discusses how his client's herds are performing in terms of fertility, looks at some of the disease risks he is faced with, and also discusses his practices current recruitment drive

Bovine TB continues to affect herds across the country, and with turnout approaching, we look at ways farmers can manage the risk

Managing lameness is an all-year-round task, with care needed to ensure problems do not arise when cattle are at grass

Venereal campylobacter infection is thought to be more widely prevalent in cattle than confirmed case numbers would suggest