Farmers are refusing to take on "snowflake" veterinary students who do not have a farming background.

A Limerick vet is challenging a “savage” decision to remove him from all temporary inspector panels after he wore a Donald Trump mask while working at a meat plant.

Not many men can claim to have helped impregnate a gorilla or to have delivered a primate by caesarean section, but David Cahill’s CV is fairly unique, even in the radical world of fertility medicine.

The cost of poor reproductive performance in the dairy herd can be quite significant, arising from reduced milk production, increased costs for replacement of culled animals, and veterinary intervention and medicine costs.

In 2010 we had a severe outbreak of Botulism on two of our clients’ farms.

The phone rang at 6.30 am.

Maintenance of adequate levels of trace elements and minerals is essential for optimum growth and health in all stages of an animal’s life.

On a number of calls over the past few weeks, I have been asked to scan cows that are going late.

During the calving season, I unfortunately have had to investigate some abortion issues on farms.

EU and national directives requiring that use of veterinary medicines is recorded at the point of use will end the days of scribbling animal ID numbers and drug names into a notebook, according to a company behind a smartphone app called VirtualVet.