Animal Health News

RSPCA Assured has updated its welfare standards for dairy cattle, which are set to give cattle more space, additional pasture access, and better welfare at every stage of life.  

Cattle farmers are being urged to consider lungworm vaccination before turnout as both cases and signs of resistance to commonly used wormers continue to rise.

Spanish farmers are seeking regulatory relief, as African swine fever has already cost them over €60 million, according to the national farming union. 

After an atrocious year for making forage, with drought causing a lack of available grazing as well as poorer quality and quantity of silage, experts came together at the recent Forage Forum to offer advice on maximising your available forage.

In today’s dairy industry, margins require careful management and operational complexity continues to increase.

Suckler producers are being urged to review their cow supplementation programmes after widespread trace element deficiencies have been identified in suckled calves.

DAERA has confirmed that the bluetongue virus has been detected in two cows on a holding near Bangor in Co. Down, Northern Ireland. 

The latest RUMA Agriculture Targets Task Force Report has been released, marking the final update in the RUMA Targets Task Force 2 cycle. This release completes another important phase in the livestock industry’s antibiotic stewardship journey, as it gears up to launch the third cycle of targets next week. 

A young farming couple who lost nearly a quarter of their suckled calf crop to cryptosporidiosis in 2023 have taken a belt-and-braces approach to ensure such devastating losses never happen again.

Rising cases of avian influenza across the UK mean that commercial and some backyard poultry keepers in England are now legally required to house their birds and step up on their biosecurity. 

All poultry and captive birds on farms across Northern Ireland must now be kept indoors following the confirmation of new bird flu cases.

DSM-Firmenich, the manufacturer of the methane-reducing feed additive Bovaer, has responded to allegations from Danish farmers that the product is linked to recent cattle illnesses and deaths.