Top Animal Health Links This Week (Mar. 21-27)

To help you stay on top of animal health and disease news, we are posting our top links of the week, which will direct you to important information and discussions around animal health. Below, please find the links, broken down by Network. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter if you want to see the best animal health links on the net every day. Read our guides on how to use Twitter and Facebook for continuing education. If you missed last week’s top links, check them out here.

General

Our Youtube channel has tips on properly packaging + shipping samples. Get the most out of your lab dollars 

Companion Animals

Dr. Weese from Worms and Germs discusses Cache Valley virus in sheep, dogs and humans

Equine

Read Equine Guelph’s answer to the question “Why is Colic so Common in Domestic Horses?”

“What is Your Horse’s Fecal Egg Count Telling You?”  from The Horse

Poultry

Check out our small flock poultry Veterinarian training. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/small-flock-poultry-veterinary-training-tickets-24021525028 … Free for Ont vets

Small Ruminants

OVC professor & active OAHN small ruminant member, Dr. Paula Menzies, talks to The Toronto Star about Cache Valley Virus

New issue of Ontario Sheep News has a great article about a “New Tool to Fight Deadly Parasites in Sheep”

Swine

Swine Disease Matrix and 25 swine disease fact sheets now available from Swine Health Information Center

Wildlife

2 more rabies cases found this week in Hamilton – 1 skunk and 1 raccoon. Check out the map