All Outputs (2)

Exploring the responses of smallscale poultry keepers to avian influenza regulations and guidance in the United Kingdom, with recommendations for improved biosecurity messaging (2023)
Journal Article
Jewitt, S., Smallman-Raynor, M., McClaughlin, E., Clark, M., Dunham, S., Elliott, S., …Tarlinton, R. (2023). Exploring the responses of smallscale poultry keepers to avian influenza regulations and guidance in the United Kingdom, with recommendations for improved biosecurity messaging. Heliyon, 9(9), Article E19211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19211

Understanding how smallscale (‘backyard’) poultry keepers interpret and respond to governmental directives designed to reduce the transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is of paramount importance in preparing for future HPAI outbrea... Read More about Exploring the responses of smallscale poultry keepers to avian influenza regulations and guidance in the United Kingdom, with recommendations for improved biosecurity messaging.

Associations between small ruminant lentivirus infection and total milk yield and somatic cell count in a dairy sheep flock (2023)
Journal Article
Davies, P., Jones, S., Dunham, S., & Tarlinton, R. E. (2023). Associations between small ruminant lentivirus infection and total milk yield and somatic cell count in a dairy sheep flock. Veterinary Record, 192(11), Article e2731. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.2731

Background Small ruminant lentiviruses (SRLVs) are lentiviruses of sheep and goats, formerly known as maedi–visna (MV) in sheep and caprine encephalitis and arthritis in goats. In sheep, SRLVs commonly cause progressive pneumonia, wasting and indura... Read More about Associations between small ruminant lentivirus infection and total milk yield and somatic cell count in a dairy sheep flock.