Lice irritate cattle, causing the cattle to bite, scratch and rub. This constant irritation can become a welfare issue. ...

A disease of ruminants which is the result of a failure to metabolise carbohydrate and volatile fatty acids, and characterised by high blood ketone and low blood glucose levels, mainly in high producing dairy cattle in the first two months of lactation....

Foot rot; the earliest sign is a swelling and moistening of the skin of the interdigital cleft particularly in the region of the heel. This is soon followed by a break in the skin-horn junction and then a separation of the adjacent soft horn....

Foot abscesses often develop when the soil and pastures are wet or frozen. The disease causes an acute lameness that is usually restricted to one foot, which the sheep will not place on the ground....

Fog Fever is one of the most common respiratory diseases of grazing adult beef cows. This is a sudden onset, respiratory distress syndrome with minimal coughing which occurs typically in hungry fat, beef-type cows, in the autumn, within two weeks of their...

Enterotoxaemia is a severe disease affecting sheep, it less frequently affects goats and is rarely seen in cattle. ...

Cobalt deficiency in sheep, disease of young stock occurring mostly in spring and early summer....

Botulism; Occurs when potent toxins are produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. Early signs are uncoordination, loss of appetite, excessive salivation, mild excitability and nervous twitching and jaw champing....

Blackleg is an acute fatal disease of young cattle characterised by the development of swelling in the upper muscle masses of one or more limbs. The animals affected are frequently those in good condition and on a high plane of nutrition....

Anthrax is prevented by avoiding contact with animals that are suspected to have anthrax and areas that may contain bodies of animals that died from anthrax....