Sheep health and disease
External parasites
- Alternatives to diazinon
- Blowflies
- Breeding Merinos for less breech strike
- Chemicals registered to treat lice and flystrike on sheep, September 2004
- Improving automatic jetting races
- Sheep lice
- The Laboratory Lice Detection Kit
Internal parasites
- Drench resistance and sheep worm control
- DrenchPlan - the basics
- DrenchPlan 2005
- Hydatids - the basics
- Hydatids - you, too, can be affected
- Identifying liver fluke snails
- Laboratory tests for worms - prices and availability
- Liver fluke - the basics
- Liver fluke disease in sheep and cattle
- Lungworms in cattle, sheep and goats
- Nodule worm of sheep
- Pathology and diagnosis of internal parasites in ruminants (126 kb, PDF)
- Quarantine drenching - don't import resistant sheep worms
- Registered drenches for sheep worms
- Sheep drench combinations, resistance and 'refugia'
- Sheep measles - another profit killer
- Sheep worm control: summer vs winter drenching in southern NSW
- Stomach fluke (paramphistomes) in ruminants
- WestWorm and FarWestWorm
- Worm control regions
- WormMail - internal parasite information mailing list
- WormTest for livestock and guide to egg counts
Footrot
- Eradication of footrot from sheep flocks on the Northern Tablelands
- Footrot in sheep and goats
- Footrot notifications
- Guidelines for veterinarians issuing certificates on footrot status of flocks
- Livestock Contractors Footrot Certification Scheme
- Map of sheep footrot areas in NSW
- Owner/vendor declaration of footrot freedom of flock (form)
- Undertakings, policies and procedures
Other
- Anthrax
- Bacterial arthritis in lambs
- Bloat
- Buying sheep can be a health hazard
- Cheesy gland (Caseous Lymphadenitis) in sheep
- Cleaning up fodder drop zones after a flood
- Eperythrozoonosis in sheep
- Foot abscess in sheep
- Foot and mouth disease
- Grain poisoning of cattle and sheep
- How vaccination works
- Lamb autopsy: notes on a procedure for determining cause of death
- Livestock Contractors Footrot Certification Scheme
- Lumpy wool - a skin disease of sheep
- Ovine brucellosis
- Ovine Brucellosis Accredited Flock Scheme (NSW)
- Ovine Johne's Disease (OJD)
- Photosensitisation in stock
- Prussic acid poisoning in livestock
- Scabby mouth
- Scoring sheep for fleece rot
- Selenium deficiency in sheep
- Stock problems after a flood
- Vaccination programs for sheep
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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, 44kb)
You can use this form to notify the knowledge or suspicion of a notifiable animal disease.
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Spotlight
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- 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.