Farm
Silver is the New Blue!
Have you tried Aluspray yet? As we look to reduce antibiotic use on farms, you can use this silver aluminium powder spray in most of the same situations as the blue Cyclospray/Terramycin Spray – on caesarean wounds, after de-horning and on damaged skin following diarrhoea or urine scald. The spray contains no antibiotic but forms […]
Medicine Hub Tutorial Sessions
AHDB Medicine Hub Many of you will have seen the AHDB Medicine Hub advertised in the farming press or in communications from us. The system provides an online platform for recording antimicrobial use and can also be used as a full medicine record compliant with Red Tractor assurance. It can be tricky to get to […]
Mastitis in ewes and cows: are they the same?
Mastitis in ewes and suckler cows: are they the same? There are two main types of pathogen that can cause mastitis: contagious and environmental. Contagious pathogens live on animals so can be controlled using good hygiene and antibiotics. Environmental pathogens are widespread in the environment so can be much harder to control. CAUSES: Mastitis in ewes is normally […]
Animal Health & Welfare Pathway
The Animal Health and Welfare Review is now open to all eligible keepers and offers an excellent opportunity to understand the disease challenges on your farm and to offer advice and support for your business. Funding is now available for a vet visit to offer bespoke health and welfare advice and to carry out some […]
Post movement testing from August 2023
Post movement testing in the Edge Area from August 2023 New rules will come into effect on 1st August 2023 requiring cattle moving from the higher TB incidence areas of England and from Wales into the annual surveillance area of England (which includes Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire) to undergo post movement testing. This will include cattle […]
Benchmarking for Beef & Lamb Farmers
With rises in feed, fertiliser, and fuel costs, knowing your cost of production and how your farm enterprises compare with industry is now more important than ever. AHDB Beef and Lamb can help with their Farmbench project! What is involved? An AHDB Regional Knowledge Exchange Manager will visit the farm, collect the information required for […]
Division of farm accounts
In order to support the farming industry in its mission to show how antibiotics are used across sectors and how their use is reducing, we will be creating different worksheets within farm accounts for different enterprises. This will only impact those farms with multiple species (e.g farms with cattle and sheep). Farms will still only […]
AHDB Medicine Hub
We are encouraging as many of our clients to sign up to the AHDB Medicine Hub to help record their farm antibiotic use data. We believe the UK is a low level antibiotic user and we now need to prove it by sharing our data with the industry. When you sign up to the Medicine […]
Targeting Neonatal Lamb Treatments
In preparation for the start of the new lambing season, we are reminding our shepherds that neonatal lamb antibiotic treatments should be used responsibly. Products such as Spectam, or the alternatives Parofor and Bimamix, should never be given from the start of lambing as disease risk should be at its lowest. The majority of lambs […]
November 2022 Client Evening Highlights
Our November talk was a greatest hits compilation of many of the topics we deal with as vets on a regular basis but never really warrant a whole talk by themselves! The highlights for those who couldn’t attend are as follows! Bad Eyes: Most infectious eye conditions in cattle and sheep respond to antibiotics and […]
