Goats

Goat plague (peste des petits ruminants, PPR)

You may have heard about the outbreak of the notifiable peste des petits ruminants in Greece and Romania, but thankfully you won’t be too familiar with diagnosing the disease itself.…

SRUC Veterinary Services
07/08/2024

December case highlights

Bacterial pneumonia dominated the December cattle diagnoses, although two high morbidity pneumonia outbreaks associated with IBR were also investigated.…

SRUC Veterinary Services
29/02/2024

Haemonchus contortus - is the picture changing in your area?

Over the past ten years, SRUCVS have made a total of 46 diagnoses of haemonchosis on Scottish holdings with all DSCs seeing at least one case. Although the number of cases remain small, 46% of these diagnoses have been made in the past three years and there is a general upward trend on a yearly basis.…

SRUC Veterinary Services
04/08/2023

Look out for Haemonchus in sheep and goats!

Colleagues in Aberdeen have seen several sheep and goats with Haemonchus over the last few weeks.…

SRUC Veterinary Services
11/10/2021