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Scientists from the Moredun Research Institute in Edinburgh have produced a free guide for farmers to help better understand, control scouring in young lambs due to Nematodirus.
The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has opened a new Regional Veterinary Centre in collaboration with Kingston Maurward College in Dorset to provide an important opportunity for students to gain hands-on farm animal experience in the field.
Around a million dollars of equipment and vaccines are urgently required to help stem outbreaks of deadly Foot-and-Mouth disease (FMD) in North Korea, followed by a more prolonged and concerted effort to modernise veterinary services in the country says the OIE and FAO.
A 3 million research project to improve the safety of animal feeds and the entire European animal-based food chain has been launched at Queen's University in Belfast.
The evaluation report of Exercise Silver Birch, a major national exercise designed to test Government's ability to deal with a significant outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), has been published by Animal Health.
Cattle born or reared in the UK before 1 August 1996 have had new movement restrictions placed on them as an extra precaution against meat from these older cattle entering the food chain.
Minister Michelle Gildernew MP, MLA from Northern Ireland has stated that there has been an attempt to deliberately infect a herd of cattle in Armagh with brucellosis.
A recent study has shown that domestic hens show a clear physiological and behavioural response when their chicks are mildly distressed, raising questions about the welfare of farm animals.
