Sheep and goats with foot-and-mouth disease

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 Watch Hotline 1800 675 888.

More information

Look for the signs of foot-and-mouth disease

Sheep and goats with foot-and-mouth disease

Pigs with foot-and-mouth disease

Cattle with foot-and-mouth disease

Images courtesy of The European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EuFMD)