Search results for: animal welfare updates
Search results for: animal welfare updates
MMN November 2023 – The Low-Down on Winter Dysentery
…implicated as a cause. It spreads rapidly throughout the herd with the majority of animals affected, mainly being transmitted by the faecal-oral route from faecal contamination of feed or water….
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What Can Be Done About OPA/Jaagsiekte?
…thin, breathless animals lagging behind the flock. Offspring of culled animals should not be kept on for breeding. They frequently go on to develop OPA. Areas that housed suspect OPA…
Read More >Investigating Abortions In Cattle
…of animals e.g. purchased replacements, animals in their first pregnancy. There is a need to check a vaccine is working. Aborting cattle are ill, scouring or dying. Working out the…
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Fodder Beet
…ewes in late pregnancy protein will be first limiting factor and should be supplemented or moved to grass 3 weeks pre-lambing Animals should be gradually introduced to minimise digestive upsets…
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Changes To TB Control Measures & Compensation
…testing Introduction of a two tier cap on compensation for individual animals Prohibition on testing on Bovine animals Scotland achieved Officially Tuberculous Free Status (OFT) in September of 2009. The…
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Top Tips for Successful Calf and Lamb Management
…newborn animal, the most important thing is to ensure that it receives sufficient colostrum. Colostrum is the first milk produced by the mother and is a vital course of antibodies,…
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Holistic Management: Part 1 – Introduction
…The Four Key Insights For Grassland During his career as an ecologist in Africa, Allan saw how through the removal of people and grazing animals, including extermination of 40,000 elephants,…
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Data Driven Decision Making for Finishing Cattle
…examples that provide weights of animals that can speak to the performance recording programmes but do require a higher level of digital proficiency as well as capital cost. The number…
Read More >Ewes Lambing and Time of Day
…Canadian Journal of Animal Science 66, 569-74. 2 Hudgens, R. E., Albright, J. L., and Pennington, J. A. (1986). Influence of feeding time and trial on time of parturition in…
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Getting Started with Organic Farming – How to Convert to Organic
…What is your animal health plan? If your conversion proposal includes livestock, you will either need to have an animal health plan or demonstrate that you are aware of how…
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