Common Livestock Diseases

1. The best way to control disease.
3. Bacterial disease that causes sudden death of animals.
8. Cleanliness, Quarantine sick animals, Isolate new animals, Avoid exposure to diseases.
10. Bacterial disease that lives in soils and infects animals through wounds.
13. Bacterial disease that causes bloody scours in hogs.
14. Microorganism that causes abortion during last half of pregnancy, afterbirth retention or sterility
16. commonly referred to as “Cheesy Glands”.
17. Symptoms loss of appetite, gasping, sleepiness, convulsions and death.
18. Viral disease that causes late term fetal death, abortion, weak pigs and respiratory disease in young pigs.

2. Very contagious virus. Symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea with white, yellow or green feces.
4. Symptoms of yellow cankers in the mouth and eyes and scabs around the head.
5. Reduces feed intake and causes reduced gains.
6. More common in young cattle during times of stress, such as shipping.
7. Virus with symptoms of gasping for air, sneezing, breathing difficulties, tremors and paralysis.
9. Extremely contagious bacterial infection that causes lameness in affected animals.
11. Bacteria that lives in the soil and enters the animal’s body through a wound.
12. Caused by protozoan parasites.
13. Virus that causes blisters on the mouth, lips and nose.
15. More common in the dairy industry (However any lactating female can become infected.)