Tag: animal health

Administering treatments to livestock via injection can be a hairy business, in more than one respect. It is therefore essential to take the necessary...

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Lameness in beef cattle can have serious economic consequences for producers. Lameness has several causes, which is why identifying the...

Dr Eddie Snyman is a retired veterinarian from Middelburg in the Eastern Cape. He has many years of experience in treating and preventing diseases...

Three of the most hazardous and costly venereal diseases among livestock in South Africa are brucellosis, trichomoniasis and pizzle rot. Dr Andy Hentzen, a...

Many farmers and feedlot owners have first-hand experience of the damage respiratory diseases can cause to a cattle farming enterprise. Although pneumonia is a...

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Since not all farmers report sheep scab among their sheep, the disease continues to pose a tremendous threat to...

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes South Africa experienced a particularly hot summer this year, with many parts of the country also having received good rain by...

Bluetongue virus (BTV) is a non-communicable, insect-borne disease that is seasonally driven by heat, moisture and frost. Biting mosquitoes and midges transmit the virus to ruminants such...

Diarrhoea and pneumonia are the two most prominent diseases among calves. Calf diarrhoea results in additional expenses and unnecessary losses in the form of mortalities, the cost...

This article is part of a series of informative animal health articles. The series goes hand in hand with the #VideoVet video series –...