News – British Deer Veterinary Association

Updated on March 9, 2025March 9, 2025Conferences Meetings

BDVA CPD Day 11th June 2025 – Health and Welfare of Wild Deer

The BDVA is organising a CPD event at Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire on Wednesday June 11th 2025. A flyer for the event can be found here. Details of the programme can be found here. Those wishing to sign up can register their interest here. Once you have registered your interest, we will get in touch with further details. The meeting will discuss topics around the health and welfare of wild deer, with some consideration of wild boar. The speakers include colleagues from APHA, the BDVA committee, National Trust Scotland, SRUC and universities. The meeting is for veterinary surgeons with an …

Updated on November 12, 2024November 8, 2024Uncategorized

BDVA Statement about deer in the wild and capture myopathy

Updated on November 8, 2024November 8, 2024Uncategorized

Newsletter item about Epizootic Haemorrhagic Disease Virus and deer (November 2024)

Updated on September 30, 2024September 30, 2024APHA Bluetongue

BDVA Newsletter: Information on Bluetongue in Deer

Please see here for the September BDVA newsletter. This newsletter contains information for those interested in finding out more about the unfolding Bluetongue Virus situation and how it may affect deer keepers in the UK. For further information please feel free to contact us.

Updated on June 3, 2024May 31, 2024Uncategorized

Death announced of the highly respected veterinary virologist Hugh W. Reid

The eminent veterinary virologist and scientist Hugh Reid passed away on May 10th 2024. His funeral was held in Edinburgh on May 24th. Hugh had a long association with the Moredun Research Institute and he published a substantial body of work on diseases of livestock including deer. He was a key contributor to the Veterinary Deer Society book (1994) Management and Diseases of Deer (A Handbook for the Veterinary Surgeon). He was the editor of The Management and Health of Farmed Deer (A Seminar in the CEC Programme of Coordination of Research in Animal Husbandry), held in Edinburgh on 10-11 …

Updated on January 18, 2024January 18, 2024Meetings Pathology

BDVA Online Meeting – Clinical Pathology in Deer – 21st February 2024

21st February 2024 (6.45 to 8.15 pm) – Online Meeting – Clinical Pathology in Deer The BDVA are holding an online (Zoom) evening CPD event to discuss topics related to clinical pathology in all types of deer. The meeting is aimed at veterinary surgeons in general practice who want to know more about clinical pathology. We are grateful to James Barnett (Farm Animal Veterinary Advisor for Axiom Laboratories) who will introduce the topic with a presentation on testing deer for a variety of conditions. This will be followed by a Q&A / discussion session, with contributions from members of the …

Updated on September 26, 2023August 16, 2023APHA Bovine Tuberculosis

BDVA Online Meeting – Tuberculosis in Deer Update – (6.45 pm) 27th September 2023

The BDVA committee aim to update members regarding progress on bovine tuberculosis (bTB) and enclosed deer (farms and parks in particular). This will include progress on surveillance testing in the field, updates on discussions with APHA and a discussion with any scenarios members would like to raise. Bookings for this meeting are now closed.

Updated on August 16, 2023August 16, 2023BVZS

BVZS Conference 2023 – 3rd-5th November

The British Veterinary Zoological Society conference 2023 is being held from 3th – 5th November 2023 at Aston Hotel in Birmingham. The conference spans 3 days and a full agenda will be pulblished soon, and there will be a stream focussing on wildlife and deer. There is also a conference dinner on the evening of the 4th November for delegates. For more information, please see the BVZS website conference section.

Updated on January 11, 2023January 11, 2023Uncategorized

Surveillance Focus – Reindeer Health and Welfare

There has been an article published in the Veterinary Record (Dec 2022, Vol 191 Issue 11) on Reindeer Health and Welfare. This article is written by Aiden Foster (University of Bristol) and Alan Wight (APHA) and is a review of reindeer submissions to APHA between 2011 and 2021, including discussions on common presenting signs and discussing common conditions. This article is free to access.

Updated on January 8, 2023January 8, 2023Publications

Published Book: The Management of Enclosed and Domesticated Deer, John Fletcher

A new book, “The Management of Enclosed and Domesticated Deer”, Edited by John Fletcher, has been published that may be of interest to veterinarians and members of the UK deer industry. The book has been published by Springerlink and can be found here. A book review has been written by BDVA president Aiden Foster and published in the Vet Record, but is also available to BDVA members through the ‘Members Area’ ‘Book Reviews’ section.