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What does oestrus detection have to do with economics and carbon footprints? Oestrus detection Last week’s article identified the importance of accurately detecting oestrus so that time and money are not wasted unnecessarily. Wastage can occur on any scale. From the micro level – a straw will be wasted if a cow not in oestrus at AI, to the individual cow level where, for example, a cow is culled due to fertility issues related to failure to detect oestrus to…
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The Oestrous Cycle The cows reproductive cycle is termed the oestrous cycle and consists of several phases including a luteal phase (after ovulation the corpus luteum is formed) and a follicular phase (luteolysis and ovulation)1. A healthy cow typically has a cycle between 18-25 days long, during which the progesterone levels increase and decrease systematically. What Is Progesterone? Progesterone is a steroid hormone and is produced by the corpus luteum in the ovary after ovulation. If a cow falls pregnant,…
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Liver Fluke: A further insight into it’s effect on livestock. Liver fluke infections cost the UK farming industry an estimated £300 million per year, through animal death, or decreased productivity in chronically infected animals that may show no obvious signs of disease. At Ridgeway Research Ltd we are committed to animal welfare and aiding the scientific understanding of parasite life cycles and their control. At our laboratory we maintain the Liver Fluke life cycle, producing and supplying metacercariae to Universities…
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Congratulations to our Managing Director Maggie Fisher on becoming First Vice-President for the WAAVP (World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary
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This year Ridgeway Research Ltd [RRL] has added the chicken tapeworm, Raillietina cesticillus to its collection of life cycles that include liver and rumen fluke. Each life cycle enables
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Ridgeway is no stranger to R&D when it comes to drug innovation but what are the latest trends in farm business innovations..? Last week The Company attended the Farm Business
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This week in the lab we identified chicken lice (Menacanthus stramineus). Infections of lice can develop anytime of the year, however they are more common in Autumn
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We are looking forward to attending the 8th Conference of the Scandinavian-Baltic Society for Parasitology (SBSP) and the Annual Meeting of the European Veterinary Parasitology College (EVPC) from October 10-11, 2019 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The programme is quite extensive, with a number of top parasitologists as key note speakers. Maggie [Managing Director of Ridgeway Research Ltd] would welcome the opportunity to meet both old faces and new, so please get in contact if attending to arrange to meet her there.
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Contented dairy cow in Madison, Wisconsin, US. Has it used #P4Rapid ? If you are interested in P4Rapid and how it can help you, visit Maggie Fisher on the VRM stand No. 21 at the WAAVP 8th -11th July 2019.
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Maggie Fisher [Managing Director of Ridgeway Research Ltd] is looking forward to attending the WAAVP this year in Madison from the 8th -11th July 2019. The WAAVP is a great conference and we are all interested to see what developments have been made over the last few years. Maggie would welcome the opportunity to meet both old faces and new, so please look out for her on the VRM stand no. 21, which will have a display of the rumen…
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