Tag: animal health

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Bovine coronavirus is one of the pathogens frequently associated with calf diarrhoea. Calf diarrhoea has several potentially fatal outcomes, such as...

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Newborn calves often present with diarrhoea, which leads to sizable losses for dairy farms. There may be several reasons for...

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes AECI Limited, a leading mining explosives and chemicals company in Africa, recently announced the signing of an agreement for the...

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes South African horse owners are once again entering African horse sickness (AHS) season with a shortage of vaccines according to...

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Newcastle disease is a serious viral infection caused by the highly contagious avian paramyxovirus serotype 1. It affects domestic poultry...

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes The use of the NoseRing® to wean calves isn’t new. It has been around since the mid-nineties and is one...

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Despite strong reproval by animal welfare groups such as the National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty...

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes The Free State reported a new foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak on 21 February 2024. It is still being epidemiologically...

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes The ingestion of colostrum and the vaccination for lambs to prevent pulpy kidney and other infectious diseases is important. A...

Due to the African horse sickness (AHS) outbreak in the Eastern Cape, movement restrictions have been imposed in the Grahamstown state veterinarian area. After...