Livestock News

MSD Animal Health has launched its 2025 FlockCheck diagnostic scheme, which offers a subsidised blood test for toxoplasmosis and EAE.

SCOPS and COWS have offered advice on using the very limited number of products available for treating liver fluke.

NFU Cymru is urging Natural Resources Wales to reverse its decision to phase out permits for sheep dip disposal to land.

Welsh poultry farmers urged not to be complacent as AIPZ introduced in response to the growing threat of avian flu.

Beef and dairy farmers are being encouraged to develop calf hygiene protocols as part of efforts to prevent scours in their youngstock.

Three UK pig marketing groups have just announced a merger with the intent to give independent farmers more clout in the marketplace.

The infection was acquired on a farm, where the person had close and prolonged contact with a large number of infected birds.

British dairy farmers have significantly reduced the number of pure-bred dairy bull calves being born on their farms, according to a report outlining the progress of the GB Dairy Calf Strategy.

Farmers reported fear, depression, sleepless nights and persistent anger, as well as a deep sense of loss of control.

A focus on fat and placing merit on cows who gain condition while suckling a calf could be the key to a sustainable and profitable beef system, said the industry experts Shetland beef farmer Jamie Leslie and Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society CEO Robert Gilchrist at the British Cattle Breeders Conference in Telford. 

A Wiltshire farmer has been given a suspended prison sentence after decaying sheep carcases were found on the farm.

Experts are worried that the inclusion of rumen fluke egg counts on lab reports could result in knee jerk reactions, or distract from liver fluke.