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Scrapie updates in goats and sheep for 2025

Episode 151For the Love of Goats As goat owners, understanding diseases that can affect our herds is crucial for maintaining ...
MPs are urging the cabinet to act over the health risks linked to goat farms, following a report showing people living nearby ...
Just like any other animals, goats keeping faces challenges of infections if not well taken care of. They are commonly affected by mastitis, a parasitic disease known as Coccidiosis, helminthiasis, ...
GEDDES, N.Y. — The Cuddling with a Baby Goat exhibit at the New York State Fair made it less than eight hours before New York State veterinarians shut the operation down, visually diagnosing one of ...
Almost three months after a young goat named Daisy Mae came to the University of Florida’s Large Animal Hospital unable to walk due to a rare disease, she is now a dress- and diaper-wearing “house ...
Pastoralists in Marigat District have suffered heavy losses from a disease outbreak that has killed over 2,000 goats. The affected villages include Kasiela, Arabal, Chebinyiny, Nyimbei and Kapkechir ...
GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Unless you're part of the sheep or goat industry, you've probably never heard of scrapies. The industry and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are fine-tuning efforts to make sure ...
SPOKANE — A bacterial infection called Q fever has apparently spread from goats to humans and sickened people in Washington and Montana, agriculture officials said. The illness has stricken five ...
The Federal Ministry of Livestock Development has inaugurated a 33-member National Technical Working Group (TWG) to ...