UCD Herd Health Team clinical research update

In this article, Assistant Professor Eoin Ryan highlights a small selection of the many herd health problems that the UCD Herd Health Team has been encountering and documenting in recent years. The UCD Herd Health Team continues to provide a consultancy herd health service to veterinary practitioners around the country, whether through direct consultancy over the phone, indirect via email or via on-farm herd health problem investigations. The UCD Herd Health Team is made up of a team of European specialists, together with residents undergoing specialist training: Dr Finnian Logan, ECBHM specialist and Dr Eilidh Thomson, ECAR specialist. Members of the UCD Herd Health Team have carried out herd health problem solving investigations in every county on the island of Ireland over the last 10 years, providing support and guidance for veterinary practitioners, valuable experiential training for UCD’s veterinary residents, herd health teaching for its students, and help in driving clinical research within the herd health and husbandry section of the Vet School. In addition to allowing the Vet School to support the farm animal veterinary profession in Ireland, herd health problem-solving aff ords the added privilege of being able to collaborate on investigations with colleagues in the Regional Veterinary Laboratories, Teagasc and Animal Health Ireland.