Abstract This case report describes the investigation of first outbreak bovine besnoitiosis in a beef/suckler herd Ireland. Infection with Besnoitia besnoiti was suspected by attending veterinarian following clinical examination chronically affected cow areas alopecia and marked skin thickening. Diagnosis confirmed Cork Regional Veterinary Laboratory based on histopathology biopsies. Subsequent...

Behaviour including temperament of cattle especially suckler cows is important for the safety of stockmen and animals. The temperament of cattle can be defined as the answer to human handling situations (BURROW 1997) and can be measured for calves in different tests like tethering test, weighing test or separationand restraint test (TULLOH 1961, BOISSY and BOUISSOU 1988, LE NEINDRE et al. 1995)...

Introduction The number of suckler cow beef herds is increasing in Finland. Prevalence studies about gastrointestinal parasites and lungworms of grazing beef cattle in southern Finland are not available. Systematic anthelmintic treatment is not widely used and there is no recommended treatment protocol available. The aim of this study was to obtain basic knowledge of the prevalence of gastroint...

New maternal breeding values have been developed for use in UK beef evaluations. To undertake multitrait BLUP evaluations, it is necessary to have a full covariance matrix. This study outlines the approach taken to construct the full covariance matrices for the four beef breeds that most widely contribute to suckler beef cows in the United Kingdom. The maternal traits investigated were age at f...

Integrating dairy and beef production offers opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of production, which is dominated by related maintenance the breeding cow. This study aims quantify GHG reduction potential New Zealand (NZ) sector when replacing cows their calves with animals. To this end, we combined a cattle herd model NZ emission calculations production. We computed (to farm...