Disease

24 April 2024

The tables below provide information on the different nutrients and vitamins needed in feed, for livestock to thrive.

3 March 2022

There are essential vitamins and minerals required to support productivity in livestock production. Issues can occur with imbalances, deficiencies or toxicity. It is important to understand how the different elements interact with each other, the clinical signs and management options to resolve the problem.

11 August 2023

This notebook provides you with best practice calf-rearing information. It will also help you to keep a record of calf performance (colostrum intake, liveweights, calf losses).

16 August 2019

Haulier questionnaire: We would like to get a feel for the standard of lorry washing facilities at markets and abattoirs across England.

16 August 2019

Rupert Major shares how he switched from a leader-follower system on the milking platform, to a separate heifer grazing platform.

10 October 2019

A meeting for small-scale pig keepers to find out about disease surveillance and the symptoms of different diseases

9 October 2019

A meeting for small-scale pig keepers to find out about disease surveillance and the symptoms of different diseases

8 October 2019

A meeting for small-scale pig keepers to find out about disease surveillance and the symptoms of different diseases

2 October 2019

A meeting for small-scale pig keepers to find out about disease surveillance and the symptoms of different diseases

1 October 2019

A meeting for small-scale pig keepers to find out about disease surveillance and the symptoms of different diseases

9 July 2019

This report recounts the activities of the Pig Health and Welfare Council (PHWC) during 2017 and 2018. This has been a challenging time, with the PHWC working to enable the industry to introduce changes in practices that are necessary to meet the targets in respect of reducing antibiotic usage and driving up welfare standards across production systems.

2 July 2019

More than 30 per cent of the English cattle breeding herd has been signed up to the scheme to prevent bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) in both beef and dairy cows.

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