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Merchants slam vets' take on medicines
Adam Woods
Adam Woods has the latest on the vet medicines row between vets and merchants.
28 August 2024 News
Blackleg: ensuring that vaccination is done properly
Blackleg is a peracute disease, meaning when animals get infected it generally proves fatal quickly. Rachel Donovan talks to Tipperary vet Damien Corcoran about prevention.
28 August 2024 Pedigree
Difficult weather conditions means higher risk of tetany
Adam Woods takes a look at tetany prevention and how to avoid cases on suckler farms.
Autumn weather woes could add to health issues
Adam Woods previews this week’s special autumn animal health focus.
28 August 2024 Animal Health
Bluetongue a ‘serious threat to Irish cattle and sheep’ - McConalogue
It follows on from the announcement that a bluetongue virus serotype 3 (BTV-3) case had been confirmed in a sheep in Norfolk in the UK for the first time since March.
28 August 2024 News
Farmers urged to be vigilant of bluetongue when sourcing animals
It comes after the confirmation of bluetongue-3 (BTV-3) in a sheep in Norfolk following an investigation of a clinical suspect case.
28 August 2024 Northern Ireland
Bluetongue case detected in Norfolk
A 20km control zone has been put in place around south Norfolk after the first case of bluetongue since March was detected in the UK.
27 August 2024 News
Agri jobs: farm assistants required on pig farm in Limerick
A variety of enterprises are looking to recruit full time staff including a pig farm, a dairy farm, a drystock farm and an accountant manager with experience in the veterinary or agricultural sector.
24 August 2024 News
Increased regulation for hoof parers and cow scanners
The regulations will enable a list of competent persons available to offer these services to be developed.
21 August 2024 News
New research uncovers link between rainfall and TB in the Burren
Researchers have identified a possible link between high levels of rainfall or a factor associated with rainfall and TB levels in the Burren up to 2020.
14 August 2024 News
How drugs and TB changed Irish veterinary medicine
Up to the late 1940s, farm animals were generally treated by the local ‘handy man’ and vets were seen as no more than ‘horse doctors’, writes John Flaherty.
14 August 2024 News
Sharp increase in blackleg outbreaks in cattle
Blackleg is a common disease of cattle worldwide, causing acute muscle damage and usually seen as either sudden death, or death after a short illness.
12 August 2024 News