Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health has announced the launch of Fencovis, a new calf scour vaccine with a prevention claim, which will be available in the UK and Ireland before the end of the year. 

A 2021 German study reported the incidence of diarrhoea to…

Ceva Animal Health is hosting a webinar for farm vets: ‘Q Fever – a disease with underestimated consequences’, at 4:00pm on Wednesday 28th September.

Q Fever is caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii, which can infect humans, cattle…

MSD Animal Health has launched a dairy calf heath checklist app, designed to help the veterinary professionals and farmers draw up action plans to improve calf health together.

The app, which works on tablets and smartphones, allows vets to e-mail audit results…

Ceva Animal Health is hosting two free webinars on ‘Sustainability, sexed semen and fertility management’ to update farm vets on how to support the implementation of new fertility solutions.

On Thursday 16th June at 4:00pm, Dr Jude Capper, PhD…

Boehringer Ingelheim has announced the launch of TwistPak, billed as a revolutionary mixing platform which allows swine producers to combine and administer two vaccines, Ingelvac CircoFLEX and Ingelvac MycoFLEX, in a convenient, fast and flexible way.

RCVS Knowledge has launched a free new tool which allows veterinary teams who treat farm animals to set goals to help target, track and improve their antimicrobial prescribing. 

The new 'SMART goals tool' is an addition to the charity's Farm…

Ceva Animal Health is urging vets to encourage their farming clients to test for enzootic abortion of ewes (EAE) if they have experienced an abortion rate of over 2% in their flock or if two or more have aborted over two to three days irrespective of…

Horiba is to host a free CPD webinar for farm vets: 'Hypocalcaemia – Strategies for Prevention and Monitoring', on Thursday 28th April at 7.30pm.

Horiba says subclinical hypocalcaemia (SCH) is a significant and under-diagnosed metabolic…

MSD Animal Health has launched a new Flock Health Checklist to help vets work with shepherds to develop action plans to address the main areas influencing flock health and productivity.

The new Flock Health Checklist is designed to helps practitioners…

MSD Animal Health has given Bovilis Bovivac S, its salmonella vaccine for cattle, a makeover so it can be easily differentiated from other vaccine bottles.

Bovilis Bovivac S is used for active immunisation to induce serological and colostral antibody…

Independent dairy specialist, Kingshay has published its first Dairy Antimicrobial Focus Report, which found that 79% of herds achieved the Ruma 2020 target of 21 mg/kg PCU by March 2021, with a 98% reduction in use of critically important antibiotics…

MSD has launched the Porcilis Health Management Vet Academy, a 12-month CPD programme designed to support the development of veterinary surgeons working in the pig sector.

Rubén Del Pozo Sacristán (pictured right), technical manager for pigs at MSD Animal…

A new study published in the Veterinary Record has concluded that ketoprofen in the treatment of active digital dermatitis (DD) lesions may be beneficial for animal welfare and for animal productivity.

For the study¹, 158 cows presented with active DD…

Forte Healthcare has launched Charcovet Gel, an activated charcoal gel for the support of digestive disturbances in calves, foals and lambs.

Charcovet Gel contains 30g of activated charcoal in a 60ml syringe. 

Dr John Henderson, Large Animal Product Manager…

Forte Healthcare Ltd has taken over the distribution of Locatim in the UK.

Used to treat calf diarrhoea, Locatim is an orally administered product, indicated for the reduction of mortality caused by enterotoxicosis associated with E. coli F5 (K99).

The…

Zoetis has ramped up production of its Marek’s disease vaccine.

Poulvac CVI + HVT Marek’s vaccine provides the combination of the Rispens CVI strain and the HVT strain.

Zoetis says this combination of serotypes has long been recognised for…

Booking has opened for the first Precision Livestock Farming in Practice conference with special discounts for vets taking farmer clients to the event, which is taking place at York Biotech Campus on 23rd and 24th November.

Mike Gooding, chairman of organiser…

The slightly inappropriately named poultry vet, Henry Lamb MRCVS, has been named Young Farm Vet of the Year in the National Egg & Poultry Awards organised by the magazine Poultry Business.

Henry, who works at Crowshall Veterinary Services in Norfolk…

Nominations are now open for the ‘Young Dairy Vet of the Year’, a recent addition to the Cream Awards: the annual dairy industry trade awards run by British Dairying magazine.  

The award, introduced in 2020 and supported by animal health company…

Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health has announced that it has ceased production of the flukicide product Trodax 34% w/v Solution for Injection, containing nitroxynil, for the European market.

Trodax is used to treat the mature and late-immature stages of…

Elanco is to hold a seminar on piglet gut health, to help support the transition away from medicinal zinc usage to control post-weaning diarrhoea (PWD), at the Jury’s Inn hotel, near Hinckley, Leicestershire, on 21st September from 11am – 1pm.…

Vetoquinol has initiated a Class I recall of Lydaxx 100 mg/ml solution for injection, an antibiotic for cattle, pigs and sheep.

The company initiated the recall after identifying a potential for the sterility/stability of the product to be compromised…

UK Farmcare reports that more than 60 people from across the agricultural community have registered an interest in training to become an Approved Tuberculin Tester (ATT) of cattle.

The role was created last November when the Animal & Plant Health Agency…

Ceva Animal Health, the manufacturer of Cevac Chlamydia, has published the results of a new survey which showed that 47% of farmers are not vaccinating against enzootic abortion of ewes (EAE)¹.

322 farmers took part in the survey, 83% of which had a flock…

Ceva Animal Health has announced that Eprecis, its zero-milk withdrawal, injectable wormer for cows has been recategorised from POM-VPS to POM-V.

As Ceva points out, the change gives veterinary surgeons an opportunity to get more involved in parasite control…