Beef
What 4 counties have the highest amount of liver fluke cases?
In the Animal Health Ireland (AHI) Beef HealthCheck Newsletter’s spring edition, Dr. Natascha Meunier, Beef HealthCheck programme manager outlined the...
Beef
In the Animal Health Ireland (AHI) Beef HealthCheck Newsletter’s spring edition, Dr. Natascha Meunier, Beef HealthCheck programme manager outlined the...
Beef
Liver fluke has continued to have a presence in a considerable number of cattle herds across the country since early...
Sheep
Efforts to restore wetlands and create habitats including wader scrapes through environmental schemes have the potential to bring a risk...
Beef
Farmers have been reminded of the importance of ensuring their cattle have been given an effective treatment for liver fluke,...
Beef Technical
Warm and wet weather conditions this year have contributed to over one third of the cattle herds in Ireland having...
Sheep
The heavy rainfall in recent days in many parts of the country, along with temperatures holding relatively high, will heighten...
Sheep
A collaborative research project between Teagasc and the Molecular laboratory, National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway is aiming to develop...
Sheep
“The timing of fluke doses has caught a lot of people out due to the mild winter seen, and as...
Beef
Liver fluke, Fasciola hepatica, is a well-known parasite that impacts both cattle and sheep and can cause serious production losses...
Dairy Technical
Liver fluke is a parasitic disease of grazing animals caused by Fasciola Hepatica (a flat worm) and has a major...
Beef
The percentage of liver fluke incidents in beef cattle at slaughter has witnessed a reduction in cases this year when...
Beef Technical
With the winter period now just a distant memory in the minds of farmers, it is important to take a...
Sheep
It’s been a wet winter on farms across the country, and with sheep out grazing for much of this period,...
Beef
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), in collaboration with Met Éireann, has released its forecast of the predicted risk...
Beef
Liver fluke can be a major threat to beef farms, especially during the winter months. As housing has been taking...
Sheep
The wet weather of late has meant that the threat of liver fluke is very much a concern for sheep...
Sheep
Liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica) is known to cause severe clinical disease and death in sheep flocks throughout Ireland and can be...
Dairy
New research means that you can now breed dairy and beef animals that have a greater resistance to a tuberculosis...