Mortality due to pulpy kidney in beef calves and goats

Abstract

AUGUST was an unsettled month with temperatures provisionally 0.1°C below the long-term average and rainfall 124% of average. Sunshine was below average in the south west but slightly above average in the east and far north. SRUC published the 38th edition of The Farm Management Handbook containing current crop and livestock data. Thanks to Scottish Rural Development Programme Farm Advisory Service funding, the online version is free to download from www.fas.scot/publications/farmmanagement-handbook-20172018 Cattle Nutritional and metabolic disorders Dumfries investigated the deaths of two Holstein heifers that had been imported from the Netherlands three weeks previously. Both animals had aborted at grass before death. On postmortem examination a large amount of internal fat was noted; the carcases were jaundiced, and the livers were yellow, friable and greasy, consistent with severe fatty liver. Tissue loated in formalin. Two areas of pulmonary