Tag: diseases

Boer goats are often regarded as hardy, resilient animals that seldom contract diseases. This perception is mostly accurate. However, diseases can and do occur...

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 Ticks are small, external parasitic arachnids that belong to the superfamily Ixodoidea. When people or animals are bitten by these...

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Malignant catarrhal fever or snotsiekte is responsible for the death of thousands of head of cattle in South Africa every...

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes The negative impact of bluetongue has been widely felt by livestock producers and their flocks over the past few...

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Bluetongue has been prevalent amongst sheep since the importation of the first Merinos into South Africa in 1789. The Orbivirus...

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes The brown stomach worm is one of the most important roundworm species that infect cattle (Ostertagia ostertagi) and sheep (Ostertagia...

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Clostridium bacteria are responsible for diseases such as black quarter, malignant oedema, uterine gangrene and gas gangrene. The infection...

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: 5 minutes Every year animal diseases lead to millions of rand worth of production losses. Since control is becoming increasingly more expensive...