Farm Animal Veterinary News

    Rise and shine, it's European Antibiotic Awareness Day

    The British Veterinary Association has welcomed the European Commission's Action Plan on Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), launched yesterday on the eve of European Antibiotic Awareness Day. The Action Plan sets out 12 actions: Improve awareness...

    Pig vets urged to promote top five farm services

    The British Pig Executive (BPEX) is urging veterinary surgeons to promote a 'top five' of farm services which will be available to pig farmers that sign up to BPEX's new national pig health scheme. The Pig Health Improvement Project (PHIP) became...

    Search for the brightest stars in UK practice management

    The first steps have begun to find Petplan and The Veterinary Business Journal's Practice Manager of the Year for 2012. Nominations are now being sought for the most accomplished UK practice managers and recommendations are welcome from any member...

    Norbrook launches Loxicom Injection for cattle, pigs and horses.

    Norbrook is expanding its NSAID range with the launch of Loxicom Injection for cattle, pigs and horses. Norbrook says the new product, which will be available to veterinary surgeons from mid-October, offers treatment for a range of symptoms including...

    New PR award for practices

    The Veterinary Marketing Association has announced details of a new award for public relations, open to veterinary practices and companies. The VMA says this award is to recognise the value that media and public relations can add to the marketing...

    MSD launches udder health tool for vets

    MSD Animal Health has launched Expertis Udder Health, a farm management tool for veterinary surgeons to better enable them to monitor and improve udder health in dairy cattle. Expertis was presented to vets at the International Conference on Udder...

    New online database of livestock and poultry vaccines

    Inocul8 and the Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines (GALVmed), have launched vetvac.org a free new online database of information about livestock and poultry vaccines. Currently the Vetvac database contains information on nearly 2,000...

    Animalcare launches antibiotic for sheep and cattle

    Animalcare Ltd has launched Tilmodil (tilmicosin 300mg/ml solution for injection), a semi-synthetic macrolide antibiotic licensed for pneumonia in cattle and sheep, foul in the foot in cattle, and footrot and mastitis in sheep. According to the company...
  • Vetoquinol launches anti-infective for cattle

    Vetoquinol is launching Forcyl, an injectable anti-infective for the targeted therapeutic treatment of respiratory infections in cattle, in November. Forcyl is a patented 16% marbofloxacin solution, registered as a single intramuscular injection,...

    Tickets available: Internet Pharmacies - Opportunity or Threat?

    The Veterinary Marketing Association has 10 tickets available for its annual debate being held at the House of Lords on Tuesday October 12th, this year entitled: Internet Pharmacies - Opportunity or Threat? The debate will be chaired by Professor...

    Novel antibiotic to combat bovine respiratory disease

    MSD Animal Health has launched Zuprevo Cattle, which contains a novel antibiotic molecule to help combat bovine respiratory disease (BRD). Zuprevo Cattle contains the active ingredient tildipirosin (180mg/ml), a new 16-membered, tribasic macrolide...

    Eurovet launches marbofloxacin preparation for cattle and pigs

    Eurovet Animal Health has launched Marbiflox 10%, a new marbofloxacin preparation for the treatment of respiratory infections in cattle and pigs. Eurovet says the product can be used flexibly to provide a single dose treatment, with a concentration...

    Eurovet launches pessary solution for RFMs

    Eurovet Animal Health has launched a new product, Bovocycline 2000 mg pessary for cattle. Bovocycline 2000 is the only veterinary licenced antibiotic pessary for the treatment of retained foetal membranes in cattle. It is licenced for the treatment...
  • RVC launches appeal to help drought-ravaged Kenya

    The Royal Veterinary College has launched an appeal to the veterinary profession to raise a target of £10,000 to enable VetAid Kenya to help during what has become the worst drought in living memory in the Horn of Africa. According to the RVC,...

    Animal campaigner changes name to StopFortnumandMasonFoieGrasCruelty.com

    A PR headache for Fortnum and Mason yesterday, as PETA employee Abi Izzard changed her name by deed poll to StopFortnumandMasonFoieGrasCruelty.com to try and shame the London store into stopping selling foie gras. To produce foie gras, birds are force...

    Survey to look into technician's role in practice

    The Veterinary Development Council (VDC) is conducting a survey to investigate the role of paraprofessionals and technicians in veterinary practice, and is asking vets in large animal, equine, and mixed practices to complete a short survey. The VDC...
  • MEPs approve €2M for farm animal homeopathy research

    An amendment to the EU's draft budget for a €2 million pilot research project into homeopathy and phytotherapy for farm animals has been approved today by the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee. BVA President Harvey Locke, said: "Millions...

    New bovine reproduction clinical booklet

    BCF Technology has launched a new bovine reproduction clinical booklet which can now be ordered free from the company. BCF says the booklet has been specifically designed as a reference guide for the reproductive tract of the cow, providing key...

    Veterinary profession petitions for CCTV in abattoirs

    VetSurgeon member Anthony Todd has started a petition amongst veterinary surgeons and nurses, calling for the installation and routine monitoring of CCTV in all pre-slaughter areas of licensed abattoirs in the UK. The petition was triggered by a news...

    MSD launches new Bravoxin 10 Farm Pack

    MSD has announced that the broad-spectrum clostridial disease vaccine for sheep and cattle, Bravoxin 10, is now available in a new 6 x 100ml farm vaccination pack. The pack contains enough vaccine for 600 sheep or 300 cattle boosters. Buyers of the...
  • BVA challenges FSA to act against animal abuse

    The BVA has challenged the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to take further investigative action to enable Defra to consider prosecutions against the Essex abattoir where appalling animal welfare abuses were highlighted in footage obtained by Animal Aid ...

    Zolvix released in 0.5L pack for quarantine dosing

    Novartis Animal Health has launched a 0.5L pack of the anthelmintic Zolvix to make the product more readily available for quarantine dosing, and for the smaller sheep farmer. Novartis says that because Zolvix is a broad spectrum anthelmintic that...

    Online pig movement recording to start in October

    From the beginning of October this year, the electronic recording of pig movements will be written into legislation. Following a recent consultation, Defra intends to amend the existing Pigs, Records, Identification and Movements Order (PRIMO) 2007...

    Disciplinary Committee suspends Cardigan veterinary surgeon

    The RCVS Disciplinary Committee has suspended a Cardigan veterinary surgeon from the RCVS Register for five months, for failure to perform accurate bovine tuberculin testing and for falsely certifying the test results. During the two-day hearing,...

    BVA and BCVA welcome Defra's announcement on badger cull

    The British Veterinary Association and its specialist cattle division the British Cattle Veterinary Association have welcomed today's announcement by Defra that it is strongly minded to include a controlled cull of badgers as a key component of the bovine...