Sheep and goats with foot-and-mouth disease
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Sheep and goats are a significant risk for spreading foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) because they often show little or no signs of illness.
These symptoms could be signs of FMD:
- Mild to severe lameness affecting one or more legs
- Fever
- Off colour
- Tendency to sit down or unwillingness to rise
- Increased lamb mortality.
Mouth sores are also a symptom but are often hard to recognise as FMD in sheep and goats.
At first suspicion of sickness or a disease that concerns you, contact your local vet or notify Agriculture Victoria on the Emergency Animal Disease Hotline 1800 675 888.
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Look for the signs of foot-and-mouth disease
Sheep and goats with foot-and-mouth disease
Freshly ruptured blister on a foot of a goat, seen as a red lesion in white and pink area between the claws
Goat with open mouth, showing whitish raised tongue lesion
Early lesion on goat’s lower jaw showing as a small red square on the gum
Dental pad of a goat with an arrow pointing to a scarred off-white and pink lesion
Images courtesy of The European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EuFMD)