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Preparing flock performance figures for the new state-funded vet consultation will help sheep farmers get the most out of their Animal Health and Welfare

A subsidised blood testing scheme is now available for sheep producers to help identify possible reasons for early lamb losses.

Subsidised blood testing scheme FlockCheck now available 3 February 2021 | Using FlockCheck can help improve a flock’s potential and overall economic performance This year's FlockCheck diagnostic service has launched, allowing sheep farmers to blood test their flock for exposure to toxoplasmosis and enzootic abortion. The subsidised diagnostic scheme, developed by MSD Animal Health, has been running for more than 15 years and is available from vets nationally. It requires practitioners to take blood samples from six to eight aborted, unvaccinated ewes, or from barren ewes or ones that have...

Longer shelf-life for popular calf scour vaccine 14 December 2020 | An opened bottle of Bovilis Rotavec Corona will now last much longer Broached vials of a popular calf scour vaccine can now be used for up to 28 days after opening the immediate packaging thanks to a new license. Bovilis Rotavec Corona is used for the active immunisation of pregnant cows and heifers, 12-3 weeks pre-calving, to raise antibodies against rotavirus, coronavirus and E. coli. Calves gain protection by drinking the fortified colostrum from their vaccinated mothers. The product's shelf-life extension will mean gre...

© Tim Scrivener A big increase in the shelf-life of a widely used calf scour vaccine could save medicine wastage and money on beef and dairy farms. Previously, Bovilis Rotavec Corona, used to immunise pregnant cattle for E.coli, rotavirus and coronavirus, had to be used within eight hours of opening. However, the new license enables farmers to use it for up to 28 days after broaching the vial. “For all-year-round calving dairy herds, for example – that may want to vaccinate successive pregnant dams on different days – it will make an opened bottle of vaccine l...