Webinars Bitesize Programme

We offer evening live CPD webinars that are delivered by SRUC Veterinary Investigation Officers, SRUC speakers and external experts. This CPD activity is part of the Outreach for Surveillance and Bitesize CPD programme. The live webinars, which are also recorded, are funded by the Scottish Government and are delivered to UK and overseas veterinary practitioners free of cost.

Note that the webinar recordings will be forward to CPD attendees after each talk and can be accessed through the online CPD academy/free talks section. Please contact us for any queries via the form below.

Taking Control of Bovine TB

Scotland continues to enjoy Official TB Free Status and the benefits that that brings to the cattle industry, something that we need to work hard as an industry to maintain. However as practitioners, especially in South of Scotland know this does not mean that TB is not present in the cattle population and it remains an ever present potential biosecurity threat.

We are delighted to have three expert speakers to discuss TB in a Scottish context. Firstly Mick Park and Iain Bell from APHA who will describe trends, actions on confirmed cases and new opportunities for investigating the source and Sarah Tomlinson who is the TB Advisory Service Technical Director, veterinary lead and a key member of BCVA’s TB working group, who will give us an overview of an holistic approach to bovine TB.

This CPD event will be part of two series of webinars

Webinar 1: 20 October 2023, 7.00-8.00pm: Trends, actions on confirmed cases and new opportunities for investigating the source

Link to register: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4Bitenn2TMyAoXlm3zW7Ew#/registration

Webinar 2: 27 October 2023, 7.00-8.00pm: Holistic approach to bovine TB- there is more to TB than just testing

Link to register: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cZDJlE43QgmHFas6fCaZeg#/registration

Past talks

To view the recordings for these and many other talks go to the SRUC elearning platform and use your login details or create a new, free account. Then select the talks you want to watch.

: Milk drop in dairy herds is complicated! It is truly multifactorial with causes including infectious disease, nutrition, management or a combination of all three. With the advance of increased technology on dairy farms there is also an abundance of data to draw on. From a disease surveillance perspective it is also of interest as a potential way in which a new and emerging disease may start in a herd. This webinar discussed how to approach an investigation in a cost effective way, considered some of the common and more exotic differential diagnoses relevant to individual herds and tried to help navigate the complexities of what might be going on on farm.

(original date: 6 September 2023)
: This was the third in a series of webinars for vets that explored ways of making beef and sheep health plans more effective in practice.

Participants join us to catch up with Ed, Ali and Lee-Anne as they reported back on their clients' herds and flocks after the lambing / calving period and looked forward to managing health risks over summer.
: In addition to the large dairy beef rearing companies, we have seen an increase in farms taking on small numbers of dairy beef calves to rear as a sideline to other farming enterprises, outside the traditional dairying areas. This webinar aimed to highlight the important nutritional and health planning considerations for these rearing systems up to and around weaning. The management and prevention of common problem scenarios was also discussed.

(Original date: 19 April, 2023)

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Webinars Bitesize Programme

Upcoming talks:

Past talks

Investigating milk drop syndrome in dairy herds

Health planning on beef and sheep farms: Finding new solutions (part 3)

An Introduction to Dairy Beef Calf Systems – Nutrition and Infectious Disease

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