Veterinary Services

Respiratory disease causes losses in Scottish cattle, sheep and poultry

Sheep deaths due to pasteurellosis continue

• Laminitis following disbudding of calves
• Bracken poisoning in beef cattle
• Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis
• Winter nematodirosis in lambs
• Blindness in finishing lambs
• Erysipelas in finishing pigs
• Infectious laryngotracheitis in pullets

Dramatic increase in sheep deaths due to pasteurellosis

• Bronchopneumonia in adult dairy cattle
• Downer cows
• Salmonella dublin abortion in cattle
• Systemic and pneumonic pasteurellosis in sheep
• Meningitis due to Streptococcus suis in pigs
• Blackhead in turkeys
• Avian pox infection in wild birds

Investigations continue on cases of congenital blindness in calves

• IBR in cattle
• Mastitis due to Streptococcus uberis in dairy cows
• Clostridial disease in cattle
• Pine (cobalt deficiency) in lambs
• Meningitis due to Streptococcus suis in pigs
• Coccidiosis and gapeworms in red-legged partridges
• Salmonella Brandenburg in a household pet

Nematodirosis a major problem in Scottish flocks this month

• Lead poisoning in cattle
• Iodine deficiency in spring calving suckler herds
• Coccidiosis and BVD in dairy heifers
• Copper poisoning of ewes and lambs
• Coccidiosis in lambs
• Enzootic pneumonia in pigs

Abortion due to Neospora declines in Scottish cattle

· Chronic fasciolosis continues in cattle and sheep

· Copper poisoning in sheep

· Salmonella indiana in sheep

· Streptococcus dysgalactiae causing polyarthritis in lambs

Enzootic abortion of ewes (EAE) recorded on 50 separate occasions during the month.

· Bacillus licheniformis abortion

· Salmonella Typhimurium in calves

· Streptococcus suis septicaemia in growing pigs

· Pregnancy toxaemia in lowground sheep

· Lead poisoning in Whooper swans

• Salmonella Dublin in cattle – geographic distribution in Scotland
• Chronic fasciolosis in sheep and cattle
• Severe scour problem in calves
• Pneumonia due to RSV in cattle
• Bovine abortion due to Bacillus licheniformis
• Listerial encephalitis in sheep
• Salmonellosis in garden birds

Salmonella Dublin in cattle – reduction continues during 2004

• Impaction of forestomachs in beef cows
• Chronic fasciolosis in beef cows
• Suspected botulism in a goat
• Sleeper syndrome in a beef heifer
• Septicaemia and meningoencephalitis due to Listeria monocytogenes in sheep
• Caseous cellulitis in caged layers
• Suspected poisoning of an otter