Dairy and Beef herd screen

We offer a range of screen services for your beef or dairy herd throughout the North West.

These include:

Animal Health Diagnostics

A comprehensive range of diagnostic services related to animal health and animal nuturition. Tests carried out on a range of different sample types:- Individual animal- blood, milk, ear notch Herd or group of animals- bulk-tank milk, pooled milk, pooled blood

Animal disease and parasite tests available

Viral:- Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus (BVDV) Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR)

Bacterial:- Mycobacterium avium paratubculosis ("Johne's disease) Mycoplasma bovis Salmonella Leptospirosis

Protozoan:- Neospora caninum

Parasite:- Fasciola hepatica (liver fluke)

Animal nutrition tests available

Milk:- Milk mineral profile Milk Urea Nitrogen

Blood:- Blood mineral profile

Forages and Feedstuffs:- Full suite of tests available to determine nutrional value of pasture, ensiled forages and concentrate feeds.

Dairy herd disease screen Service based on bulk milk samples collected 3 times per year (100% spring-calving) or 4 times per year (spring and autumn calving). Milk samples should be taken during milk collection to give a representative sample of the whole herd. Details of all vaccinations (vaccine product, name and dates of vaccinations) must be provided on the sample submission sheet.

Option A 

THis is the most comprehensive dairy herd health screen available.

It is recommended for all dairy farmers.

Antibody by ELISA(herd exposed to diease/vaccination) / DNA/RNA by PCR(active disease in herd)

1. Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus (BVDV)
2. Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis(IBR)*
3. Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis
4. Mycoplasma bovis
5. Salmonella
6. Leptospirosis
7. Neospora caninum

Antibody by ELISA(herd exposed to parasite/possible parasite load)

• Fasciola hepatica(liver fluke)
• Osteragia ostertagi(stomach worms)

* if herd is not vaccinated, an indirect IBR ELISA will be used. If gE deleted marker vaccine for IBR is used, a gE antibody ELISA test will be used.

Suckler-beef herd disease screen

Service based on pooled blood samples collected 3 times per year (100% spring calving) or 4 times per year (spring and autumn calving).

Blood (serum or heparinised plasma) samples should be collected by the practicing veterinarian from a representative sample of each management group as outlined below.

Details of all vaccinations (vaccines product names and dates of vaccinations ) must be provided on the sample submission sheet.

Herd size->no of animals to be sampled

10                          10

20                          19

30                          24

40                          28

50                          31

100                        38

Suckler-Beef  herd disease screen

OPTION  A

Antibody by ElISA /   DNA/RNA by PCR

• BVD
• IBR
• Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis
• Mycoplasma bovis
• Salmonella
• Leptospiris
• Neospora caninum
• Fasciola hepatica(liver fluke)

For more information on our screening services, please phone our office today on 074 9130772 or fill in an appointment form.