Animal Welfare
Waders project celebrates win at Nature of Scotland Awards
Jennifer Struthers of SAC Consulting, centre, and the rest of the award-winning Clyde Valley Waders Farming Group. A collaborative project to save threatened populations of wading birds in the Clyde…
- SRUC
- 29/11/2024
SRUC welcomes first cohort of veterinary degree students
Scotland’s first new vet school in over 150 years is already fulfilling its promise to widen access to the sector, with more than half of its first intake of students hailing from rural or remote Scottish locations.…
- SRUC
- 23/10/2024
New health web app to improve farm productivity
A dynamic new web application has been designed to enhance health risk management for beef and sheep farmers and their vets. …
- SRUC
- 17/10/2024
SRUC innovator secures prize at Converge Awards
An SRUC project has enjoyed success at this year’s Converge Awards, an annual ceremony designed to celebrate the pinnacle of Scottish academic innovation. …
- SRUC
- 04/10/2024
Young Farming Innovators wanted for ‘Dragon’s Den’ competition
Young farmers from across Scotland are being invited to pitch innovative ideas to help the dairy industry in a new Dragon’s Den-style competition. …
- SRUC
- 12/09/2024
Veterinary Diagnostics Company MI:RNA Raises $4 million Series A Funding
MI:RNA, the veterinary diagnostics company which originally spun out of SRUC, has secured $4 million in Series A funding. The capital will be used to continue global growth plans and revolutionise animal health testing, improving diagnosis and wellness among the pet, agriculture and equine sectors.…
- SRUC
- 03/07/2024
Report calls for short leash for dogs – and owners
Following a workshop with countryside rangers, dog training experts and farmers among others, new report by researchers at SRUC has called for changes to legislation and for guidance around livestock worrying to be reviewed.…
- SRUC
- 28/03/2024
Research highlights importance of cooling hot dogs
In a bid to prevent the suffering that commonly results from the potentially fatal disorder of heatstroke, researchers at SRUC and the Royal Veterinary College investigated the effectiveness of different cooling methods for dogs after exercise.…
- SRUC
- 20/03/2024
Oregano oil and purple garlic prove perfect tonic for piglets
A recent study by scientists from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), the University of Murcia and the Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Development (IMIDA) found oregano essential oil and purple garlic offer similar or superior results to zinc oxide when added to weaning piglets' feed in to preventing and reducing digestive problems.…
- SRUC
- 22/01/2024
National Day of the Horse Blog
In this blog by Pippa Morrision, Senior Lecturer at SRUC, she reflects on how horses have shaped her own life and how we use scientific research to continue to learn more about them.…
- Pippa Morrison
- 13/12/2023
SRUC joins new centre tackling food security and climate change
Scientists from SRUC will carry out research into plant breeding and animal nutrition to increase productivity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions as part of a new centre announced by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.…
- SRUC
- 21/11/2023
Winter Care for Horses
With recent cold weather moving in we hope these top tips below will be helpful in caring for your horses, ponies and donkeys over the winter. …
- Peter Hastie
- 10/11/2023