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Chatter box With Strangles Awareness Week just around the corner (5-11 May), vets are being encouraged to share a survey about the disease with their horse-owning clients.

The survey, which has been designed by Dechra, aims to raise awareness of Strangles and promote best practices to prevent its transmission. It includes questions about horse owners' experiences of strangles, together with preventative measures and vaccination.

Respondents to the survey will be entered into a prize draw to win two VIP tickets to Your Horse Live 2025. To access the survey, click here Chatter box

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Equine News
BVA calls for ban on farrowing crates
BVA calls for ban on farrowing crates

Many vets fear they impact on the welfare of pigs.
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Costs may prevent better chicken welfare, survey suggests
Costs may prevent better chicken welfare, survey suggests

Broiler chicken keepers claim barriers to improved welfare standards.
Blueprint to tackle bovine TB in Northern Ireland
Blueprint to tackle bovine TB in Northern Ireland

The plans mark a new step in efforts to eradicate the disease.
Foot-and-mouth import ban extended to EU
Foot-and-mouth import ban extended to EU

Travellers can not bring meat into the UK for personal use.
Further avian influenza housing measures introduced
Further avian influenza housing measures introduced

Four more counties must now house kept birds.
Vets urged to use tool to check nematodirus risk
Vets urged to use tool to check nematodirus risk

Temperature fluctuations are making hatching difficult to predict, says SCOPS.
Foot-and-mouth disease detected in Slovakia
Foot-and-mouth disease detected in Slovakia

Cases were identified in three premises housing cattle.
New pig antibiotics to have biosecurity focus
New pig antibiotics to have biosecurity focus

The sector aims to break the cycle that drives antibiotic use.
Second case of foot-and-mouth disease confirmed
Second case of foot-and-mouth disease confirmed

The disease was found on a cattle farm in Hungary.
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DAERA to reduce BVD 'grace period'

DAERA has reminded herd keepers of an upcoming reduction to the 'grace period' to avoid BVD herd restrictions.

From 1 May 2025, herd keepers will have seven days to cull any BVD positive or inconclusive animals to avoid restrictions being applied to their herd.

It follows legislation introduced on 1 February, as DAERA introduces herd movement restrictions through a phased approach. Herd keepers originally had 28 days to cull BVD positive or inconclusive animals.

DAERA says that, providing herd keepers use the seven-day grace period, no herds should be restricted within the first year of these measures.

Additional measures, which will target herds with animals over 30 days old that haven't been tested for BVD, will be introduced from 1 June 2025.

More information is available on the DAERA website.
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