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• Scanning in Kerry

  We scanned a herd of suckler cows outside Dingle. Many of the cows scanned pregnant subsequently lost their pregnancies. The herd was checked for BVD.1 weanling was diagnosed as a P.I. This calf was running with the cows while they were being bred. Of... Posted Oct 19 2011, 05:41 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: BVD, Pi [Edit Tags]

• Heifers with stunted development.

  Visited a client in County Limerick who presented a group of heifers which had stunted development. He tried to explain that the animals had been affected with pi3. He had no vaccination programme in place. High anti-body levels for BVD and IBR no vaccination... Posted Dec 21 2010, 05:37 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: BVD, IBR, vaccination programmes, stunted growth, antibody levels [Edit Tags]

• Nutritional Management Programmes

  On a farm visit in North Kerry where a nutritional management program was put in place in a dairy herd of over 100 cows. The empty rate in the herd today was over 30%. The client complained bitterly that he had no success with the implementation of the... Posted Nov 09 2010, 04:25 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: BVD, IBR, nutritional management programme, Salmonella [Edit Tags]

• Embryonic death of animals

  Visited 2 farms around Cork today in southern Ireland. Very high incidence of embryonic death of animals presented in excess of 300 cows for the 2 farms in question. The incidence of embryonic death was 20%. The alarming feature of this was the fact that... Posted Apr 07 2010, 04:40 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: BVD, IBR, embryonic death, Lepto [Edit Tags]

• Bovine Viral Diarrohea

  Visited a farm today which had 40 suckler cows which had a body condition score ranging from 1 to 2. Approximately 50% of the animals were pregnant and the remainder were empty. A group of calves on the farm between 2 and 6 months were blind. The clinical... Posted Mar 31 2010, 10:37 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: body condition score, BVD [Edit Tags]

• Foetal Abnormalities

  Today we picked up a foetal abnormality in a pregnancy of 45 days of gestation. Where we pick up a foetal abnormality , we recommend that the client present the animal at a subsequent visit for a repeat scan 4-6 weeks later.In most of the cases presented... Posted Mar 24 2010, 11:23 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: ultrasonography, foetal abnormalities, BVD, foetal death [Edit Tags]