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Namibia restricts cattle grazing in Angola due to FMD outbreak
Namibia said that it had temporarily banned the cross-border movement of cattle into and out of northern neighbour Angola due to an outbreak of highly contagious foot and mouth disease. The disease, which causes lesions and lameness in cattle and sheep, was detected in the Ndiyona Constituency in...Read more -
Keeping animals out of home key to improved nutrition
Improved housing with piped water and keeping animals out of the home may be the key to improving childhood nutrition, a study suggests. According to the 2017 WHO Africa Nutrition Report, 58.5 million children suffered stunting— being too short for one’s age — in 2016. The WHO global targets incl...Read more -
Herders avoid violence and drought with satellites
Before climate change and conflict took hold, nomadic farmers in Burkina Faso would study natural phenomena to predict rainfall. They would send out spotters to travel ahead of the group, looking for water and pastures. But their way of life has come under threat in recent years. Pastoralist advi...Read more -
Enhance FMD surveillance by testing milk samples in the field
A follow-on study by scientists at The Pirbright Institute and the University of Glasgow has demonstrated that milk samples collected in the field can be used successfully to recognise cattle infected with foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV). This method was used in Tanzania, where the disease is...Read more -
Dairy farmers laud President on VAT exemption for animal feed
Farmers in dairy sector, under the auspices of Commercial Dairy Ranches Association of Nigeria (CODARAN) has backed President Muhammadu Buhari on his request to the National Assembly to exempt animal feeds from the list of items that would attract payment of the Value Added Tax (VAT). President B...Read more -
Cold chains help mitigate the COVID-19 food crisis lessons from Uganda
COVID-19 has disrupted food supply chains around the world, doubling the number of people at risk of acute food shortages and insecurity. However, certain supply chain characteristics – including the use of cold storage – can help mitigate this and future crises. Preliminary research ...Read more -
Caring for bulls during the breeding season
Just as an athlete can experience an injury in competition, so too can a bull when he is turned out in a breeding pasture where his athleticism is going to be tested. “Bulls will be the busiest in the first month of the breeding season when there are a lot of females coming into heat (estrus),” s...Read more -
Animal health needs partnerships for vaccine delivery
Lessons from rinderpest eradication could help fight a similar, contagious livestock disease, writes Delia Grace. As they sang and told stories around the fire, pastoralists in Karamoja, Uganda, spoke of herders before them who had lost hundreds of cattle to rinderpest, a deadly viral disease. Or...Read more -
Aberystwyth University scientists working on bovine TB breakthrough
As published in the July 17 issue of Science Advances, two skin tests for cattle have been developed that can distinguish between animals that are infected with bovine TB and those that have been vaccinated against the disease. The combination of the essential proteins which enable the differenti...Read more -
Stand out from the herd how cows commooonicate through their lives
Farmers might finally be able to answer the question: How now brown cow? Research at the University of Sydney has shown that cows maintain individual voices in a variety of emotional situations. Cows ‘talk’ to one another and retain individual identity through their lowing. Studying a herd of 18 ...Read more -
‘New’ lactic acid bacteria can make African camel milk safe
A research project headed by the Technical University of Denmark, DTU, has come up with the formula for a freeze-dried starter culture that African camel milk farmers can use to make safe, fermented milk products. The majority of the world’s camels are located in East Africa, where they are...Read more -
Hemp in Veterinary Medicine: From Feed to Drug
Hemp (Cannabis sativa) is an angiosperm plant belonging to the Cannabaceaefamily. Its cultivation dates back to centuries. It has always been cultivated due to the possibility of exploiting almost all the parts of the plant: paper, fabrics, ropes, bio-compounds with excellent insulating capacity,...Read more -
Feeding the Future with Beef Cattle – a Sustainable Approach to Responsible Food Production
Analysis of ruminant animals’ biological processes, production practices in various regions of the globe and environmental issues such as greenhouse gas emissions all suggest opportunities to mitigate livestock production’s impact on the environment. Concerns about climate change have given rise ...Read more -
Economist reviews shocks to beef industry with implications for prices ahead
The beef cattle industry has already experienced three big “shocks” this year and the effects are ongoing, but have been blunted to some extent, according to a Kansas State University agricultural economist. The first jolt came in mid-March when the COVID-19 pandemic sparked stay-at-home orders i...Read more -
Beef Production Insights on Carbon, Methane and Feeding the Future
Today’s climate change conversation often references gains in carbon emissions without discussing the source and function of the emission, writes Javier Martín-Tereso, Manager Ruminant Research Centre at Trouw Nutrition, a Nutreco company. Fossil fuels stem from geologic reserves used for ...Read more -
Sugar promotes sperm longevity in pig reproductive tract
For many livestock species, artificial insemination (AI) is standard. But it can be tricky to achieve success the first time, thanks to variability in ovulation timing across the herd. Sperm remains viable for a day or two once they reach the oviduct, the tube connecting the uterus with the ovari...Read more -
Gene-edited livestock ‘surrogate sires’ successfully made fertile
For the first time, scientists have created pigs, goats and cattle that can serve as viable “surrogate sires,” male animals that produce sperm carrying only the genetic traits of donor animals. The advance, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Sept. 14, ...Read more -
Why Asian horses don’t get sick with the flu
Avian influenza viruses infect horses in Mongolia but do not cause large outbreaks of disease because they failed to acquire key genetic changes to enable greater cross-species transmissibility, according to a study published February 7 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Pablo Murcia of...Read more -
Reducing transmission risk of livestock disease
The risk of transmitting the livestock virus PPRV, which threatens 80 percent of the world’s sheep and goats, increases with certain husbandry practices but not herd size. A new study, led by researchers at Penn State, investigated how transmission of PPRV might change at different scales a...Read more -
Ready to Deworm in Autumn for Your Animal?
It is a worldwide problem to deworm the internal and external parasites for cattle and goats. Parasite is a very serious disease not only on small and medium farms, but also on large-scale farms even with well-management and advanced equipment. So, it is a must to deworm for your animals. As we k...Read more -
Pharmacokinetics of Conventional and Long-Acting Oxytetracycline Preparations in Kilis Goat.
The pharmacokinetics of conventional and long-acting (LA) oxytetracycline (OTC), widely used broad-spectrum antibacterial drugs in veterinary medicine, were evaluated in Kilis goats at single dosage of 20 mg/kg body weight (bw). A total of 21 goats were divided into three groups: intravenous (Gro...Read more -
Pasture quality may worsen because of climate change
The increase in average temperatures expected for the next few decades, of at least 2º C, may have an unexpected impact on the pocket of ranchers. New studies suggest that one of the effects of climate change will be the reduction in the quality of the pasture, which will become less protein, mor...Read more -
New methods to predict methane emissions of dairy cattle
Methane emissions of dairy cattle can be predicted using both milk fatty acids and milk infrared spectra. This has been demonstrated by researchers at Wageningen University & Research and Qlip under the auspices of the TiFN project Reduced Methane Emission by Dairy Cows. Methane emissions of ...Read more -
More cats might be COVID-19 positive than first believed, study suggests
A newly published study looking at cats in Wuhan, where the first known outbreak of COVID-19 began, shows more cats might be contracting the disease than first believed. Researchers from Huazhong Agricultural University, in the Chinese city, took blood samples from 102 cats between January and Ma...Read more
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