The amount of scientific data evaluating sheep pain responses after analgesia treatment is limited. The aims of this study were to compare the efficacy of flunixin meglumine (FLU) and meloxicam (MEL) at relieving post-surgical pain in sheep and to evaluate the utility of the Sheep Grimace Scale (SGS).
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Traditionally, the recommended age for cats to be desexed has been between five and six months, and a survey conducted in 2013 showed desexing cats at six months remained the standard veterinary advice given to cat owners. Despite a growing awareness of the benefits of desexing at four months or earlier, by 2015 only one […]
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In the January/February 2020 edition of The Veterinarian I published an opinion piece requesting a discussion on the business model used in Veterinary Practice in the Western World. This piece was written because I perceived that the mental state of the profession was showing signs of breaking apart with over 30 per cent of responses […]
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Although the international scientific team that won a prestigious Ig Nobel award in 2019 for research helped explain some of the reasons for wombats’ distinctive cube-shaped poo, the ability of the wombat’s soft intestine to, ‘sculpt flat faces and sharp corners’ in faeces continued to remain poorly understood. Recent research has now shed further light […]
Continue ReadingShade is a mechanism to reduce heat load providing cattle with an environment supportive of their welfare needs. Although heat stress has been extensively reviewed, researched, and addressed in dairy production systems, it has not been investigated in the same manner in the beef cattle supply chain.
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