Content related to the topic: disease

6 January 2020

Improve Beef Housing for Better Returns

Improving existing buildings or designing new builds to the best standards has a lasting and positive impact on animal health and productivity. This manual covers a wide range of aspects to improve buildings for your cattle.

17 March 2026

Muck Free Truck

Help raise awareness of the importance of clean vehicles – spread the word, not the disease.

11 July 2025

Biosecurity: Vehicles on pig farms

Essential guidance to prevent vehicles from bringing disease on to pig farms.

19 October 2023

Biosecurity: People on pig farms

Reduce the risk of disease entering your pig unit by making sure all visitors follow this biosecurity policy

24 April 2024

Vitamins & minerals for beef and sheep farmers

The tables below provide information on the different nutrients and vitamins needed in feed, for livestock to thrive.

3 March 2022

Vitamins & minerals decision tree and diagnostics

There are essential vitamins and minerals required to support productivity in livestock production. Issues can occur with imbalances, deficiencies or toxicity. It is important to understand how the different elements interact with each other, the clinical signs and management options to resolve the problem.

11 August 2023

Calf rearing notebook

This notebook provides you with best practice calf-rearing information. It will also help you to keep a record of calf performance (colostrum intake, liveweights, calf losses).

16 August 2019

Are lorry washing facilities up to scratch?

Haulier questionnaire: We would like to get a feel for the standard of lorry washing facilities at markets and abattoirs across England.

16 August 2019

Switching to a separate heifer grazing platform

Rupert Major shares how he switched from a leader-follower system on the milking platform, to a separate heifer grazing platform.

9 July 2019

Pig Health and Welfare Council Biennial Report 2017–2018

This report recounts the activities of the Pig Health and Welfare Council (PHWC) during 2017 and 2018. This has been a challenging time, with the PHWC working to enable the industry to introduce changes in practices that are necessary to meet the targets in respect of reducing antibiotic usage and driving up welfare standards across production systems.

4 November 2021

Contingency planning for pig keepers

This guide will take you through the process of preparing a contingency plan, for example, if you are placed in a restriction zone. It also contains a 'key contacts' template for you to fill in and print.

4 March 2026

NPA AHDB disease contingency plan template

Download and complete this contingency planning template from AHDB and the NPA so that you are prepared should there be a notifiable disease outbreak in the pig sector.