Introduction: The UK FMD epidemic of 2001 was the largest the world had ever experienced (Rossides, 2002), resulting in the slaughter of over 4 million animals in support of the control strategy and a further 2.5 million on welfare grounds (Kitching et al 2005). Inevitably a tragedy on this scale ushers in an era of change.Impact analysis assesses the response in a time series to a discrete eve...

We examined whether the postoperative prognosis of beef cattle with left displaced abomasum (LDA) can be estimated from changes in laboratory parameters. Preoperatively, beef cattle with LDA showed increases in plasma glucose with decreased serum insulin in the glucose tolerance test compared to non-LDA cattle. Postoperatively, the cattle with LDA were retrospectively divided into two groups, g...

The milk yield and survival of 91 Holstein-Friesian dairy cows that had had a left-displaced abomasum (LDA) corrected laparoscopically were compared with those of 193 control cows matched for herd, parity and calving date. Ninety per cent of the LDA treatments were performed within four weeks after calving. The risk of being culled during the whole observational period of at least three years w...

A 4-year-old female native goat with the history of inappetence and no defecation was referred to the Department of Clinical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine of Shiraz, Shiraz, southern Iran. During exploratory laparotomy, pyloric obstruction and displacement of the abomasum to the left side was observed. Obstruction of pylorus was due to a ball-shaped phytobezoar. The goat was followed ...

Emphasizing increased profit through increased dairy cow production has revealed a negative relationship of production with fitness and health traits. Decreased cow health can affect herd profitability through increased rates of involuntary culling and decreased or lost milk sales. The development of genomic selection methodologies, with accompanying substantial gains in reliability for low-her...

This review explores the practical use of (Observer)—Reporter—Interpreter—Manager—Expert ((O)RIME) model in assessment clinical reasoning skills and for potential to provide effective feedback that can be used teaching veterinary learners. For descriptive purposes, we will examples bovine left displaced abomasum apparently anestric cow. Bearing mind primary purpose is prepare graduates a succes...