December 15, 2012 | Veterinary Record | 605

Contents

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606 Comment606 Important role

607 News and Reports607 FAWC highlights impact of physical and mental disease

on welfare

608 Vets alerted to potentially hazardous handheld dental x-ray machine

608 Tackling fly grazing in Wales

609 All-island surveillance report emphasises strengthened relationships

609 FVE concerned about separating antimicrobial prescribing and supply

610 Farmers warned against using compost and digestates as bedding for livestock

610 Final Chernobyl controls lifted in Wales

610 Researchers suggests that a universal flu vaccine may be possible

611 Working together to encourage responsible breeding and owning of dogs

612 ‘Share of the dog’ to facilitate pet keeping

612 Recognising the benefits of pets to children

613 One Health and its importance to wildlife

614 News in Brief

615 Surveillance615 SAC C VS disease surveillance report for September and

October

619 Research619 Pig welfare and what you can tell from the carcase

(E. Lambooij)

621 Evaluating the prevalence of tail-biting and carcase condemnations in slaughter pigs in Republic and Northern Ireland, and the potential of abattoir meat inspection as a welfare surveillance tool (S. Harley and others)

622 Effects of ovariohysterectomy on intra-abdominal pressure and abdominal perfusion pressure in cats (L. Bosch and others)

623 Epidemiological survey of the hoof wall cavity (‘gidoh’) in racehorses (A. Kuwano and others)

624 Investigating host genetic factors in bovine digital dermatitis (R. A. Scholey and others)

624 Low pathogenic avian influenza H7N7 in domestic poultry in Germany in 2011 (C. Probst)

625 Research Digest

626 Books

627 Gazette

629 Letters629 Bovine TB and badger culling (P. Jones)

629 New UK vet school (J. Grieve)

630 Detection of atypical Melissococcus plutonius (D. Takamatsu and others)

Vet Record Careersi The benefit of hindsight

Hoof wall cavities in racehorses, p 623Welfare, carcase quality and tail-biting in pigs, p 621

Epidemiology of low pathogenic avian influenza virus in poultry, p 624

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