Tag Archives: deer

The badger cull – what we know and what we don’t know

Posted on September 30, 2013 by argylesock

Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is an infectious disease of cattle (Bos primigenius) caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis. You could follow my ‘tuberculosis’ tag. Other animals can get bTB too. In Britain, some people think the native badger (Meles meles) is … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, ecology, knowledge transfer | Tagged alien species, bacterium, badger, biosecurity, brushtail possum, cattle, data, deer, disease, farmer, foot and mouth disease, fox, history, knowledge, livestock, mammal, marsupial, mouse, mustelid, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, native species, poison, polecat, politics, research, reservoir, rodent, ruminant, shooting, shrew, squirrel, stoat, tuberculosis, vertebrate, vole, wildlife | 2 Comments

Vaccination is happening against a virus which deforms lambs and calves

Posted on June 15, 2013 by argylesock

The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) is a Government agency here in Britain. It’s part of the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Among other tasks, VMD approves new veterinary drugs and vaccines. Farming eyes have been on VMD … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, knowledge transfer | Tagged arthropod, cattle, deer, deformity, dipteran, disease, emerging disease, goat, insect, livestock, mammal, midge, ruminant, Schmallenberg virus, sheep, vaccine, vector, vertebrate, veterinary, virus | 6 Comments

Schmallenberg virus is killing lambs and calves but a vaccine is coming

Posted on March 25, 2013 by argylesock

Today my fellow blogger nahrvalur reminded me about Schmallenberg virus (SBV). That emerging disease which is carried by midges and which deforms lambs, kids, calves and fawns. I hadn’t forgotten SBV, with farmers in my family-in-law, but this year their … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, knowledge transfer | Tagged arthropod, breeding, cattle, data, deer, dipteran, disease, emerging disease, farmer, foot and mouth disease, history, insect, invertebrate, livestock, mammal, midge, research, ruminant, Schmallenberg virus, scrapie, sheep, vaccine, vector, vertebrate, veterinary, virus | 1 Comment

Update on the virus which deforms lambs, calves and fawns

Posted on March 3, 2013 by argylesock

Here’s an update about the schmallenberg virus (SBV) from the Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI). Schmallenberg is nasty, if it gets into your herd or flock. It’s an emerging disease carried by midges, now affecting farms across continental Europe … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, ecology | Tagged arthropod, cattle, deer, dipteran, disease, emerging disease, insect, livestock, mammal, midge, ruminant, Schmallenberg virus, sheep, vaccine, vector, vertebrate, virus | 3 Comments

Is Hunting a Blessing or a Curse?: An Interview with Dr. Paul Curtis, Extension Wildlife Specialist

Posted on February 19, 2013 by argylesock

Originally posted on gabbywild:
In today’s blog post we are privileged to receive an expert perspective of hunting/wildlife management in the United States by Dr. Paul Curtis, Department Extension Leader and Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University based in Ithaca,…

Posted in ecology, knowledge transfer | Tagged America, bird, carnivore, city, climate, conservation, deer, disease, ecosystem, farm, game, garden, history, hunting, law, mammal, politics, shooting, vertebrate, wildlife, zoonosis | 3 Comments

Mammal embryos that bide their time

Posted on November 15, 2012 by argylesock

When I wrote here about the roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) I gave only a brief introduction. I didn’t mention the research about C. capreolus happening at Aberdeen University. My fellow blogger Finn Holding tells us more. He tells how the … Continue reading →

Posted in ecology | Tagged badger, breeding, climate, deer, embryo, mammal, mouse, mustelid, pinniped, rat, research, rodent, roe deer, ruminant, seal, vertebrate | 13 Comments

Mammals in North America

Posted on November 4, 2012 by argylesock

Discussions on Exposing the Big Game and elsewhere got me thinking about the mammals of North America. Opinions and history there are different from the opinions and history here in Britain and elsewhere in the Old World, which you can … Continue reading →

Posted in ecology | Tagged alien species, America, carnivore, conservation, deer, hunting, mammal, native species, shooting, ungulate, vertebrate | Leave a comment

Wild food

Posted on October 28, 2012 by argylesock

Today is Wild Foods Day. My fellow blogger Gerry at ScienceLens tells us about learning to live off the land. Gerry’s enthusiasm for blackberries rings true to me, here in Britain, celebrating the Month of the Bramble. Thoughts about wild … Continue reading →

Posted in ecology, food | Tagged bird, bramble, coastline, dandelion, deer, fallow deer, foraging, fungus, history, hunting, mammal, meat, mushroom, pharmaceutical, plant_dicot, plant_gymnosperm, plant_monocot, pollution, rabbit, red deer, roe deer, samphire, shooting, stinging nettle, sustainable, vertebrate, weed, wild food, wildlife, wine | 9 Comments

Bringing back the wolves?

Posted on October 26, 2012 by argylesock

Should we reintroduce the native grey wolf (Canis lupus) to Britain? The tourists would love to see wolves on our mountains, to hear wolves howling, and the wolves would eat excess deer. Some people in Britain shoot deer. On a … Continue reading →

Posted in ecology | Tagged conservation, deer, donkey, equid, horse, island, native species, nature reserve, pig, red deer, reintroduced species, sheep, shooting, tourism, welfare, wolf | 13 Comments

Starving sheep and starving deer

Posted on October 25, 2012 by argylesock

Wild and feral hoofed mammals (ungulates) starve in winter, sometimes, in some places. A classic example is the Soay aheep (Ovis aries) of the St Kilda islands whose population fluctuates in a boom/bust cycle, dying mostly in winter. Soay population … Continue reading →

Posted in ecology | Tagged conservation, deer, game, island, predator, rare breed, red deer, research, sheep, shooting, winter | 7 Comments