Veterinary surveillance blogs
Investigating Neonatal Losses: On-farm Postmortem
Lamb losses in the neonatal period can have a profound impact upon that year’s reproduction figures, as well as farmer wellbeing.…
- Veterinary services
- 12/04/2021
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Schmallenberg Update
With the peak of the spring calving and lambing season approaching, we wanted to give a further update on Schmallenberg virus.…
- SRUC Veterinary Services
- 09/03/2021
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Otitis Media due to Mannheimia haemolytica in dairy calves
Otitis media is most often seen in pre-weaned calves and it is often assumed that this is pathognomonic for Mycoplasma bovis infection.…
- SRUC Veterinary Services
- 01/03/2021
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Baby its Cold Outside
Recently SRUC Veterinary Services’ Dumfries centre has examined numerous milk fed dairy calves in the PM room with the expected mix of diagnoses including scour, pneumonia, rumen drinking and navel ill.…
- SRUC Veterinary Services
- 15/02/2021
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Investigating Poor Scanning Rates in Sheep Flocks
Lots of flocks will already have scanned for this year, although some are yet to do so. The barren rate within a flock should be <2%. Greater than that, (and certainly >4%) warrants investigation.…
- SRUC Veterinary Services
- 15/02/2021
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Ovine Plant Poisoning
January is the most common month for deaths due to plant poisoning to be diagnosed in sheep therefore something to look out for in the next few weeks.…
- Veterinary Services
- 22/01/2021
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Could 2021 be another Schmallenberg year?
In Scotland we have seen cases of congenital deformity in lambs and calves due to in utero Schmallenberg virus (SBV) infection in 2013 and 2017.…
- Veterinary Services
- 15/01/2021
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Look out for Histophilus somni septicaemia / myocarditis
Over the last ten years, SRUC Veterinary Services has seen a steady increase in the number of Histophilus somni septicaemia cases.…
- Veterinary Services
- 08/01/2021
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Blindness in Lambs After Housing
Some farmers may choose to house their ‘tail end’ lambs for finishing, either to preserve limited grass stocks for ewes, to manage potential fasciolosis risk or to achieve a quicker and more efficient finish before lambing starts in 2021.…
- Veterinary Services
- 18/12/2020
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Long-term Production Effects of Cryptosporidiosis in Beef Calves
The results of a six-month study looking at the long-term effects of clinical cryptosporidiosis on calves in a Scottish suckler herd have recently been published.…
- Veterinary Services
- 07/12/2020
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Action for Suckler Cows Having Scanned Twins
The information below is taken from a recent SAC Consulting Sheep and Beef News article by Basil Lowman.…
- Basil Lowman
- 07/12/2020
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Avian Influenza
A Scotland-wide Avian Influenza Protection Zone is now in force.…
- Veterinary services
- 17/11/2020
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