When weather conditions are warm and moist, young livestock are at risk of the parasitic disease coccidiosis, said David Fernandez, Ph.D, Extension livestock specialist and interim dean of graduate ...

For the Love of Goats As goat owners, understanding diseases that can affect our herds is crucial for maintaining healthy ...

Sheep pox and goat pox are viral diseases of sheep and goats characterized by fever, generalized papules or nodules, vesicles, internal lesions particularly in the lungs, and death. Both diseases are ...

An intranasal spray was developed using local isolated bacterium in Malaysia and it was found to provide better protection against infections by Mannheimia haemolytica bacterium than imported vaccines ...

Livestock producers whose lambs and kids have dark scours (diarrhea) and don’t respond to standard antibiotic treatment or deworming are most likely dealing with coccidiosis, said David Fernandez, ...

There are about 1,700 wild bighorn sheep in 17 herds in central and eastern Washington. In March, Washington transported 20 bighorn sheep to Utah in an effort to keep the Chelan Butte Herd smaller in ...

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An outbreak of animal disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is threatening to cause a food security crisis, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has warned. Reports from DRC’s ...

Populations of bighorn sheep are lean compared to mountain goats in Summit County. This unbalance is causing local experts to investigate how to stabilize their numbers. “Mountain goats are much more ...