Livestock health and disease

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Equine Influenza

The latest information, horse movement regulations, support details and news releases about the outbreak are published on the NSW DPI website.

 Information by enterprise

  • Cattle
    Internal and external parasites, poisoning, diseases and disorders of cattle.
  • Goats
    General goat health management, anatomy and physiology, diseases and nutritional deficiencies.
  • Honey bees
    Information about specific pests and diseases of honey bees from a collection of sources, as well as regulatory information and forms.
  • Horses
    Horse feeding and nutrition, welfare, diseases and parasites, poisonings and estimating a horse's weight.
  • Pigs
    Specific disease information and general information about maintaining pig health and well-being.
  • Poultry
    Information on avian influenza, Newcastle disease and other diseases of poultry plus measures for preventing disease.
  • Sheep
    Internal and external parasites, footrot, other diseases including OJD, nutritional disorders, notifiable and emergency diseases.
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Emergency and notifiable animal diseases

  • Emergency animal diseases
    can have serious consequences for trade, production or human health. Contact a vet or call the emergency animal disease watch hotline on
    1800 675 888
    if you see symptoms or deaths in animals that may be due to an emergency animal disease.
  • Notifiable animal diseases in NSW
    A number of animal diseases, including all emergency animal diseases, are notifiable under NSW legislation. This means there's a legal obligation to notify authorities if you know or suspect that an animal has one of these diseases.
  • Notifiable animal disease form (PDF 225KB)
    You can use this form (on the final page) to notify the knowledge or suspicion of a notifiable animal disease.

Other areas of interest

Services

Newsletter

  • Animal Health Surveillance
    These surveillance reports convey a limited amount of information about the occurance and distribution of livestock disease in New South Wales.