Animal Health
Monmouthshire farm investigated after visitors test positive for parasite
A number of visitors to a Monmouthshire farm have tested positive for a microscopic parasite that causes a diarrheal disease. Public Health Wales…
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Farmers urge removal of wild beavers to save land
Valuable farmland is at risk from wild beavers in Scotland and action must be taken to remove them, farmers have said after animal welfare charities…
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Pain relief should be provided when disbudding and dehorning calves, study group concludes
A recent scientific study explores different stakeholder views on the use of pain relief for disbudding and dehorning dairy calves, and has…
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Shadow ministers urge government to respond positively to reducing antibiotic proposals
Shadow Health and Defra ministers urge Conservative counterparts to respond positively to proposals for reducing the overuse of antibiotics in…
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Strong evidence Bluetongue could move to southern UK by late summer, NFU warns
Livestock farmers are being urged by the NFU to talk to their vets as the industry braces itself for a return of Bluetongue disease. The midge-borne…
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Industry groups to 'self-regulate' welfare standards in plans drawn up by ministers
Current guidelines on animal welfare standards are to be devolved to industry groups to make it self-regulating, under plans drawn up by ministers…
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Need for an agreed disease strategy amid mounting bluetongue risk
A recent APHA report suggesting an 80% chance of the bluetongue virus serotype 8 (BTV8) hitting UK shores later this year has caused some panic in…
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French parliament votes for 'outright ban' on neonicotinoid use
The lower house of the French parliament, the French National Assembly, has narrowly passed a proposal for an outright ban on neonicotinoids as of…
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Livestock saved from Devon farm fire
Pigs and chickens had to be rescued from a burning farm building near Torrington, Devon yesterday evening. Fire crews were dispatched from…
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Vets respond to health and welfare strategy for Scotland’s livestock
On Friday the Scottish government published its Animal health and welfare in the livestock industry: strategy 2016 – 2021. Produced following wide…
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