Barber’s pole worm (Haemonchus contortus) is a blood-sucking roundworm of sheep and goats.
There are management options for reducing flystrike during heavy summer rains and flood. Regular inspections of your sheep after flooding events can control flystrike in your flock.
In most cases, footrot is a preventable disease. Footrot is virtually always carried into a property and flock by means of a carrier sheep or goat.
Listeriosis commonly occurs under wet and muddy conditions.
Ovine Johnes disease (OJD) is a chronic infection of the bowel that results severe wasting and deaths in sheep.
Pneumonia and pleurisy can occur in all sheep, but outbreaks are most common in weaners during summer.
Scabby mouth is a highly contagious, viral disease of sheep and goats. It occurs throughout Victoria and can impact live sheep exports.
Agriculture Victoria animal health staff inspected a number of flocks at a variety of locations throughout Victoria in each of the four seasons over a 12-month period.
We acknowledge the traditional Aboriginal Owners of Country throughout Victoria, their ongoing connection to this land and we pay our respects to their culture and their Elders past, present and future.
