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Minerals and vitamins can play a key role in cattle health. They have a wide range of functions in immunity and cell function. They can be involved together in some biological processes like iodine and selenium in thyroid function.

Watch Tommy The Vet in collaboration with Novatec discuss minerals in the beef herd.

Lameness is one of the big challenges for the modern dairy cow and farmer. With individual cases reported to cost in the region of  €250.00 per case.

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"One of my big lessons in veterinary was I needed to spend more time knowing what the normal healthy signals of ruminants were. I spent far too long focused on disease and sickness. What do healthy animals look like and want?"

Watch Tommy The Vet in collaboration with Novatec discuss calf signals.

Cattle and sheep lameness can be a real pain, for both animals and farmers. There are two types of lameness, in my opinion, mechanical and infectious. Mechanical lameness like white line disease, sole ulcers, etc is by far the most common in cows. With infectious lameness, particularly in sheep, being more common.

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Grass tetany or hypomagnesia is what is classed as a true veterinary emergency. With this deficiency every passing minute is critical. These animals will have low blood magnesium which means quick intervention is a matter of life or death.

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Subclinical Mastitis is where we get inflammation (usually infections) in the udder which is not visible. This is measured using SCC (somatic cell counts). This is a measurement of somatic cells (mostly inflammatory cells) in the udder of the cow.

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Colostrum is the foundation of good animal health on our farms. Few aspects of husbandry and management will see as many benefits as optimising this precious resource in our animals.

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A lift in the weather means things are looking up with ewes and lambs out grazing. Sheep nutrition is a cornerstone of a healthy flock. With energy balance being the key driver to flock performance. This is why we need to monitor ewe body condition throughout the season. Key times for this are a month out from breeding and six weeks out from lambing.

Watch Tommy The Vet in collaboration with Novatec discuss minerals in our flock.

Cryptosporidium scours in calves is one disease over the last ten years that has been steadily increasing on farms. It can cause huge issues, farmer frustration and in some farms high mortality where colostrum management is below par.

Watch Tommy The Vet in collaboration with Novatec discuss getting to grips with cyptosporidium.

Coccidiosis is a small protozoan parasite with many different species. There are only a couple of these species which affect lambs and calves.

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Oral rehydration is an essential tool in managing calves with diarrhoea and even for older animals like cows that may be sick.

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After scour, pneumonia is the big killer of young calves on farms. It is not just calves that can be affected by pneumonia but weanlings and even adult animals. The big problem with pneumonia is the performance loss associated with the disease.

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Watery mouth in lambs can be a big problem in some flocks. It is a clinical endotoxemia in very young lambs in the first days of life. This basically means an E.coli infection which can cause severe shock from the bacteria multiplying rapidly in the young lambs gut.

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Calf diarrhea or scour can be caused by a range of pathogens. Diarrhea can occur when the ability of the gut to absorb fluids becomes compromised. This can lead to rapid fluid loss. This is why quick rehydration is essential in scour treatments.

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There are several key things that influence animal health and performance. Nutrition, herd health and the environment the animals are in.

Watch Tommy The Vet in collaboration with Novatec discuss five things to get right at housing.

Clinical Mastitis is an infection in the mammary gland which causes clinical symptoms. These symptoms are usually associated with bacterial infections occurring in the quarter. These infections and subsequent inflammation result in the clinical signs we see. These clinical signs can vary from quite a local swelling and milk changes to in extreme cases very sick cows with toxic mastitis.

Watch Tommy The Vet in collaboration with Novatec discuss clinical masitits.