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Rotaviruses are a common cause of diarrhea in nursing pigs and post-weaning reducing their productivity. Our understanding of the genetic variability associated with porcine rotavirus continues to increase. In this webinar we will dive deeper into rotavirus involvement in clinical disease, diagnostic interpretation, and factors to best manage the pathogen in pigs.
Joining us as speakers will be:
Jeremy Pittman
Pittman is a 2004 graduate of the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, who started his career with Smithfield after receiving his DVM. He currently works as a staff veterinarian for Smithfield s Hog Production Division North Region, serves on the Swine Health Information Center Board of Directors, and is an adjunct faculty member at the NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine.
Keeping the Horse’s Hindgut Happy
Getting back to basics and simplifying meals might be the key to keeping the horse’s hindgut healthy and functioning properly. Learn more in this article excerpt from the February 2021 issue of
The Horse.
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Getting back to basics might be the key to keeping the largest portion of the horse’s GI tract functioning properly
Horses are powerful, athletic animals. Their digestive systems, however, are delicate compared to those of most other types of livestock. Ruminants such as cattle and sheep have multicompartment stomachs. Saliva created by chewing a cud processes food in the front half of ruminants’ digestive tracts. Horses, however, rely on a metabolically complex fermentation process. And because horses only have one stomach, most of that fermentation occurs in the back part or hindgut.
Cats with chronic kidney disease can now live longer, better lives than ever before.
“It’s been a very exciting time over the last decade or so in that we’ve really enhanced our abilities to diagnose and detect chronic kidney disease,” said Dr. Shelly L. Vaden, a professor of internal medicine at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine. “We’ve also made many improvements in medical management.”
Dr. Vaden was speaking during the New Therapeutic Approaches to Chronic Care Symposium at the AVMA Virtual Convention 2020 this past August. Another convention presentation focused on RenalTech, a new tool from Antech Diagnostics that uses artificial intelligence to predict which cats will develop chronic kidney disease in the next two years.
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When horses colic, time is not on your side. Minutes matter, and often both veterinarian and owner must make quick decisions the veterinarian about treatment and the owner about the financial risk and reward of paying for those treatments. Moving from field management to referral hospital, and potentially surgery, can improve a horse’s chance of surviving but isn’t an option for all owners.
Fortunately, up to 90% of horses respond to on-farm treatment for colic, said Anthony Blikslager, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVS, who heads the clinical sciences department and is a professor of equine surgery and gastroenterology at North Carolina State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Blikslager shared his decision tree for managing colicking horses in the field during the 2020 American Association of Equine Practitioners’ Convention, held virtually.