Cattle health and disease
The resources below are for dairy and/or beef cattle. A resource may be applicable to one particular production system or both. If in doubt, contact your relevant livestock officer.
- Animal health in drought
- Annual ryegrass toxicity and blown grass / beard grass poisoning
- Anthrax
- Beef cattle vaccines
- Beef measles
- Blackleg in cattle
- Bloat
- Botulism in cattle
- Bovine ephemeral fever: Three Day Sickness
- Bovine Johne's disease (BJD)
- Bovine pestivirus infection
- Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE or 'Mad cow disease')
- Buffalo flies and their control
- Bull health
- Cancer eye in cattle
- Cattle health in feedlots
- Cattle lice
- Cattle must have sound teeth
- Cattle worm control - the basics
- Checklist for good beef cattle health and management in drought
- Clostridial diseases in cattle
- Control options for Johne's-infected beef herds
- Diseases causing reproductive losses in breeding cattle
- Emergency animal diseases
- Enterotoxaemia in cattle
- Feed controls - stopping BSE (mad cow disease)
- Foot and mouth disease
- Grain poisoning of cattle and sheep
- Grass tetany in cattle
- Grass tetany in cattle - predicting its likelihood
- Grass tetany in cattle - treatment and prevention
- Hungerford’s 'Diseases of livestock' (book)
- Hydatids – the basics
- Lead poisoning in livestock
- Leptospirosis in cattle herds
- Liver fluke - the basics
- Liver fluke disease in sheep and cattle
- Lumpy jaw and wooden tongue in cattle
- Lungworms in cattle, sheep and goats
- Neospora caninum infection in cattle
- Nitrate and nitrite poisoning in livestock
- Notifiable animal diseases in NSW
- Pathology and diagnosis of internal parasites in ruminants (126 kb, PDF)
- Photosensitisation in stock
- Pinkeye in cattle
- Poultry litter/manure and BSE controls for carriers and spreaders
- Poultry producers and BSE controls
- Pregnancy toxaemia in beef cattle
- Prussic acid poisoning in livestock
- Rearing calves to minimise the risk of bovine Johne's disease (BJD)
- Stomach fluke (paramphistomes) in ruminants
- Ticks
- Treating calf scours
- Trichomoniasis
- TSE surveillance
- Vibriosis of cattle
- Welfare decisions for beef cows
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.
Veterinary laboratory manual
- The 'Vet lab manual'
This manual is aimed at providing accessible, up-to-date information to laboratory clients to assist in the submission of diagnostic specimens.