BCVA Congress 2014 Congress Programme 16 – 18

BCVA driving
tomorrow’s practice
BCVA Congress 2014
Congress Programme
16th – 18th October 2014
Hinckley Island Hotel, Watling Street, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 3JA
Workshop
Key to colour-coding
Undergraduate
Short Research Presentation
Question Time
Cattle
Congress programme
Thursday 16th October
BCVA/SVS joint
Morning sessions
12:15
Anthelmintic resistance in cattle: can current tools answer the
field questions?
Ian Nanjiani
Automated mobility scoring- development and validation of
“IceScore”
Rob Smith
OPENING SESSION - The role of farm animal vets
Expectations of the farmer - Michael Seals, Chair AHWBE
Expectations of the supermarkets - Duncain Sinclair, Waitrose
Expectations of the consumer - Raymond O’Rourke, Chair Consumers
Association of Ireland
13:45
14:00
14:45
15:00
Antibiotic residues: helping
producers meet their obligations
Declan O’Rourke, BCVA President,
Andrew Biggs, The Vale Vet Grp, Tim
Hampton, Milk Link Limited
Suffolk Room
Knowledge transfer
with your clients using
endoparasite control within
flock health planning as an
example
Lesley Stubbings, LSSC Ltd
Integrated beef and sheep
health management
planning
Joe Henry
15:45
16:15
Five key factors
for Transition Cow
Success
Prof. Ken Nordlund,
University of Wisconsin
Ectoparasite control
within flock health
planning
Murray Corke, University
of Cambridge
Lameness control
within flock health
planning
Prof. Laura Green,
University of Warwick
17:00
17:30
Limousin
Room
Jersey Room
A day in the life of a cow 124
Owen Atkinson
Dairy cow mineral status in late pregnancy
relative to forage mineral analysis,
nutritional supplement and herd fertility
Layna Campbell
How to improve abortion investigations?
Perceptions, motivators and barriers of UK
and irish veterinary surgeons
Emily Windham
How to improve abortion investigations?
Perceptions, motivators and barriers of UK
and Irish cattle farmers
Eva Kenny
Short-term effect of antibiotics on
neonatal calves’ fecal microbial diversity
Ellie Phipps
DEW Club
Peter May
COFFEE
15:15
Boehringer Ingelheim Special Symposium
Making herds healthier with a Red Tractor 21st century
health planning that is effective as well as compliant
Dick Sibley, MyHealthyHerd.com
14:15
Treatment of clinical
mastitis in lactating
cows: new bugs, old
drugs and changing
expectations
Prof. Pam Ruegg,
University of Wisconsin
Hereford
Room
Using InterHerd+ to extract the maximum
value from milk recording and milk analysis
Holstein Room
Seminars
Workshops
Seminars
Time
A descriptive study of Neospora caninum and other bovine
abortion diagnoses in the UK from 2007-2011
Kine Elmenhorst
LUNCH 12:30 - 13:45
12:30
Afternoon sessions
Thoughts from practitioners about conducting clinical audit
Katie Waine
Prof. Ken Nordlund, University of Wisconsin
12:00
Jersey Room
E.Coli mastitis. Antimicrobials: should they be prescribed?
Helen Dagg
Outcome of treatment of clinical ketosis with an oral drench
containing glycerol and propylene glycol
Sarah Wood
A herd mobility scoring service: practicalities, opportunities
and models
Owen Atkinson, Dairy Veterinary Consultancy & Jo Speed,
DairyCo
11:30
Holstein Room
Welcome from the President
Declan O’Rourke
James Hanks, PAN Livestock Services Ltd.
11:00
Calf building design and features for improved
health
Time
Generating and assessing a video as a
knowledge transfer tool to advocate the
use of systematic analgesia during the
disbudding of dairy calves
Sarah Bolter
The impact of specific dry period
management interventions on clinical
mastitis and somatic cell count
Peter Down
Do UK dairy cows cycle every 21 days?
John Remnant
The role of the veterinary surgeon,
as percieved by the farmer, in the
implementation of vaccination strategies
on British dairy farms
Imogen Richens
Herd and cow-level risk factors for
subclinical ketosis in Dutch dairy cows
Tom Vanholder
The use of bespoke data-loggers for the
long term assessment of the building
environment in calf housing in South
England
Tom Chamberlain
App for safe medicines prescribing
Phil Sketchley
18:00
Evening
END
Clinical Club, moderated by David Barrett and Alistair Smith
Congress programme
Friday 17th October
Morning sessions
Time
Holstein Room
Seminars
08:30
09:00
Suffolk Room
AGM
The BVD Check Tag Scheme Beef heifer rearing targets to
maximise productivity
Francis Liveley, Agrifood and
Biosciences Institute
Clostridial diseases in cattle and
sheep
Karin Mueller, University of Liverpool
09:30
A comparison of attitudes to BVDV
control between Australia and the UK and the potential consequences
Alistair Smith, Charles Strut University,
Australia
10:00
BVD Herdcheck. Progress towards
BVD control
Karen Bond, NMR
Reproductive performance within
flock health planning
Matt Colston, Novartis Animal Health
10:30
Holstein Room
COFFEE
Suffolk Room
11:00
Question Time
Chair: Andrew Taylor
Panel: Gary England, University of Nottingham, Christianne Glossop, CVO
Wales, Michael Seals, AHWBE, Alick Simmons, DCVO
Workshops
Jersey
TotalVet
benchmarking
in practice
Andrew
Bradley,
QMMS
Hereford
Prevention of
mastitis
Prof. Pamela
Ruegg, University
of Wisconsin
Jersey
Hereford
Benchmarking
beef herds and
using FertBench in
practice
Everything you
need to know
about mastitis in
90 minutes
George Caldow & Iain
Riddell, SRUC
Peter Edmondson,
Shepton Vet Group
LUNCH
13:00
Afternoon sessions
14:00
Monitoring milk quality,
milking management and
udder health
Prof. Pamela Reugg, University
of Wisconsin
15:00
The on-going improvement in
somatic cell counts in milk from UK
Prof. George Gunn, SRUC
dairy herds
James Hanks, PAN Livestock Services Ltd.
A quantative analysis of the caseload
in first opinion veterinary practice:
livestock
Andrew Davies, Synergy Farm Health
COFFEE
An update on the treatment of claw
horn lesions in cattle
Prof. Jon Huxley, University of
Nottingham
A new approach to negative energy
balance in early lactation
Richard Cooper, EBVC
17:00
Farm infrastructure impact on
lameness evidence base, impact of
RDP funding and the future
Phil Alcock, Bishopton Veterinary Group
The effect on milk production in
Dairy Cows of an additional trace
element bolus administration in
early lactation
Ruth Vernon, Vet 1 Services
17:30
Guidance to control digital dermatitis Counting the culls and costing the
casualties: not all cull cows are the
Arturo Gomez, University of Wisconsin
same
Peter Orpin, MyHealthyHerd.com
18:00
Transition
cow success
Prof. Ken
Nordlund,
University of
Wisconsin
END
Caesarean sections and prolapse
corrections in cattle - tips and advice
Judith Roberts, Zoetis & Paul Wood,
Cambridge University
16:00
16:30
Antibiotic
residues - helping
producers meet
their obligations
- a practical
approach
Andrew Biggs, The
Vale Veterinary
Group & Tim
Hampton, Milk Link
Limited
How do we convince farmers to control
Paratuberculosis?
Prof. George Gunn, SRUC & Dominic
Mellor, Glasgow University Veterinary
School
15:30
Paraban - knowledge
exchange for the control
of Paratuberculosis using
champion farmers. Short
presentations from farmers,
vets, epidemiologists and
research scientists.
Congress programme
Saturday 18th October
Morning sessions
Seminars
Holstein Room
Suffolk Room
Jersey
Room
Workshops
Hereford
Room
Limousin
Room
Preferred features of
barns associated with
improved calf health
Prof. Ken Nordlund,
University of Wisconsin
Dairy cow mortality: a focus
on Jejunal Haemorrhage
Syndrome
Lee-Ann Oliver, SAC Consulting
Veterinary Services
09:30
Mycoplasma bovis in calves
Tim Potter, Westpoint Veterinary
Group
Liver fluke - an overview for
practitioners
Diana Williams, University of
Liverpool
10:00
The use of recycled manure solids as
bedding - an update on the scoping
study
Martin Green, University of Nottingham
An overview of the gloworm
project for practitioners
Eric Morgan, Bristol University
09:00
Theileria orientalis (ikeda)
associated bovine anaemia; the
epidemic to date
Kevin Lawrence, Massey
University
Pregnancy
risks and profit:
optimising
dairy fertility
protocols
Stuart Russell,
Nantwich
FarmVets
Udder
Immunology:
from book to
practice
Andrew Biggs &
Sofie Piepers,
HIPRA
Cow monitoring
- understanding
and making the
most of on farm
systems
Rob Smith,
University of
Liverpool
Counting
the culls and
costing the
casualties - not
all cull cows are
the same
Dick Sibley &
Peter Orpin,
MyHealthyHerd.
com
COFFEE
10:30
11:00
Investigating stillbirths in cattle what should a practitioner do?
John Mee, TEAGASC
The pathogenesis of Bovine
Neonatal Pancytopenia
(‘Bleeding Calf Syndrome’)
Lottie Bell, Roslin Institute &
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary
Studies
11:30
Pregnancy establishment in cattle
Prof. Patrick Lonergan, University
College Dublin
Schmallenberg: an update what next?
Gareth Hateley, AHVLA
Nutritional management to
optimise fertility in pasture-based
cows
Stephen Butler, TEAGASC
Control and monitoring of
IBR in a 220 cow dairy herd
following vaccination with a
live/inactivated IBR marker
vaccine programme
Julie Forrest, Royal (Dick) School
of Veterinary Studies
STUDENT STREAM
08:30
STUDENT STREAM
Time
Student Hall- Moo-niversity Challenge FINAL
LUNCH
12:30
13:00
13:30
Afternoon sessions
Holstein Room
Suffolk Room
What drives fertility in UK dairy
herds?
Chris Hudson, University of
Nottingham
Managing periparturient cows
to maximise fertility
Prof. Jim Roche, University
College Dublin
On farm antimicrobial
stewardship plans - the way
forward?
Rob Smith, University of Liverpool
Oestrus synchrony protocols what approaches are practitioners
taking?
Alistair Smith, Charles Sturt
University, Australia
Measuring SARA on farms with
wireless telemetry boluses
shows the importance of farm
routine in rumen management
Prof. Toby Mottram, Royal
Agricultural University
Jersey
Room
Hereford Room
Time
14:30
15:00
15:30
15:45
The Vital 90 Days: critical
opportunities in transition
management
Michael Christian,
Elanco
Closing Session
CLOSE
Treatment of mastitis
Prof. Pam Ruegg, University
of Wisconsin
STUDENT STREAM
14:00