Tag: diseases
Bovine coronavirus and diarrhoea in young calves
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Bovine coronavirus is one of the pathogens frequently associated with calf diarrhoea.
Calf diarrhoea has several potentially fatal outcomes, such as...
Protect your livestock from two-host ticks
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Ticks are small, external parasitic arachnids that belong to the superfamily Ixodoidea. When people or animals are bitten by these...
Malignant catarrhal fever: How to keep fatalities to a minimum
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Malignant catarrhal fever or snotsiekte is responsible for the death of thousands of head of cattle in South Africa every...
Bluetongue: Practical and effective control in sheep
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The negative impact of bluetongue has been widely felt by livestock producers and their flocks over the past few...
Eradicate bluetongue once and for all
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Bluetongue has been prevalent amongst sheep since the importation of the first Merinos into South Africa in 1789.
The Orbivirus...
Brown stomach worm: A parasite to be reckoned with
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The brown stomach worm is one of the most important roundworm species that infect cattle (Ostertagia ostertagi) and sheep (Ostertagia...
Black quarter targets especially growing animals
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Clostridium bacteria are responsible for diseases such as black quarter, malignant oedema, uterine gangrene and gas gangrene. The infection...
Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR): Save your herd from taking its last...
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...
Extensive research conducted on disease resistance
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Every year animal diseases lead to millions of rand worth of production losses. Since control is becoming increasingly more expensive...
