Veterinary services
ScotGov’s Animal Health & Welfare Interventions
Last month it was confirmed that ScotGov’s Preparing for Sustainable Farming’s Animal Health and Welfare Interventions will be continued in 2025.…
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- 18/03/2025
ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ Veterinary Services Update – PLEASE TAKE TWO MINUTES TO READ!
With our busiest time of year approaching, we wanted to let you know what we are doing to ensure our service is maintained despite lower staffing levels.…
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- 13/02/2023
ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ Veterinary Services Update
In ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ Veterinary Services we strive to provide an efficient service for our clients. Unfortunately, we have not been able to avoid the recruitment issues impacting businesses across the country. …
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- 09/02/2023
Thin ewes – what's the cause?
In the run up to the main tupping season checking ewe body condition score (BCS) and considering the impact that disease may be having on it is an important part of flock health planning.…
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- 16/09/2021
Babesiosis
We have recently had a case of babesiosis in the postmortem room followed by a couple of telephone enquiries. The total number of babesiosis diagnoses is small but plotting their distribution allows hot spots to be identified.…
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- 13/08/2021
Dumfries and Galloway lungworm update
The first lungworm diagnosis of 2021 was made and there are a range of risk factors to consider.…
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- 16/07/2021
Re-emergence of Pheasant Ataxia
A recent case of pheasant ataxia has occurred in released birds from an estate in southern England.…
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- 02/07/2021
Blue-Green Algae Risk
We have had reports confirming elevated concentrations of blue-green algae in Uig bay on Skye, with the potential to cause toxic blooms in the water.…
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- 01/07/2021
Schmallenberg Virus Update - June 2021
Last month, a private veterinary surgeon in South West Scotland performed an on-farm postmortem examination of a bovine foetus with torticollis and arthrogryposis. The dam of this foetus had been imported from Germany one month earlier.…
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- 25/06/2021
Copper Drench Inhalation in Young Lambs
It is not uncommon for us to see cases of lamb mortality due to copper-containing drench inhalation at this time of year. Affected flocks often report several losses following administration of a mineral drench containing copper.…
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- 25/06/2021
Exotic Diseases Update – Pigs
Brexit has resulted in a delay in animal health information passing between the UK and the EU. It is hoped that in time this will be overcome, but until then we may not receive the same early warnings of disease which we have come to expect.…
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- 11/06/2021
Nematodirus Diagnoses and Risk
Further to our previous post on Nematodirus, our first post mortem diagnoses of Nematodirus infection causing death in lambs were made at the end of last week at our Dumfries Surveillance Centre.…
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- 01/06/2021