Livestock News

The functioning rumen can be regarded as the boiler house of the bovine animal. Even a slight malfunction in its operation will have profound and widespread metabolic and financial consequences. Dr T.B Barragry, independent veterinary consultant for Provita Eurotech Ltd, offers some advice.

All Welsh slaughterhouses will need to install CCTV by 1st December as new regulations have been approved by the Senedd. 

Two vaccines are now available for BTV-3, which first emerged late last year, and have been granted emergency authorisation in two countries.

North Wales Police have launched an appeal after a two-day-old Highland calf was stolen from Denbighshire farmland. 

A ban on exporting live animals will now go ahead as the Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Act received royal assent.

The popularity of live auctions continues to grow, with last year’s turnover reaching over £2.2 billion.

2023 saw a fivefold increase in outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF) in EU domestic pigs compared to the previous year, a new Efsa report shows.

While roundworm activity so far this season has been relatively low, recent temperature increase means this could change quickly on many farms.

The British farming community has criticised Morrisons for dropping its pledge to source only British lamb. 

Action is needed now to prevent blowfly strike as red alerts are being sent to farmers across the South, Midlands and Eastern UK.

Defra has just announced a range of additional funding to tackle endemic diseases in livestock.

Police have ordered a dog owner to pay £300 and issued a conditional caution after their loose dog killed a lamb.