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Progesterone: how it can be used to predict fertility in cows

6th February 2020
Georgie Atton
Dairy, Home Page News, Ridgeway Research News, Uncategorised

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.

31st January 2020
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Anthelmintic Resistance, Home Page News, Parasite Resistance, Parasites, Ridgeway Research News, Uncategorised, Worm Egg Counts

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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CSBSP8 & EVPC 2019: New trends – new challenges!

4th October 2019
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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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Ridgeway Research Ltd is attending the WAAVP 2019

4th 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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