Animal Welfare & Biosecurity

The barber’s pole worm (Haemonchus contortus) is a blood-sucking roundworm that is the most dangerous worm for goats. They also…

Livestock handling facilities can affect you and your animals in several ways. Well-designed facilities can allow you to handle and…

Internal parasites or ‘worms’, are one of the major causes of production inefficiency in Victorian sheep flocks.  One of foremost concerns…

Vibrosis is an infectious venereal disease of cattle. It is a common cause of poor reproductive performance in beef herds…

Vaccination lesions are scars or abscesses at vaccine injection sites. They can be caused by incorrect technique, poor hygiene or…

Theileria is a microscopic blood parasite carried by ticks and has caused significant disease in Australian herds of the last…

Sheep measles are small cysts found in the muscles of sheep caused by the ingestion of eggs from the dog…

Scabby mouth is a highly contagious viral disease of the skin of sheep and goats, generally affecting lambs and kids…

Sarcocysts are parasitic cysts found in the muscle of sheep. These small white cysts resemble grains of rice and are…

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a method of recording a unique number that has been assigned to an electronic identification…

Reproductive diseases can have significant economic impacts on your livestock businesses. They can have severe consequences on production systems (i.e.…