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~ Bacterial
~ Spreads from one animal to another.
~ No treatment.
~ Sanitation is the best prevention.

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~ Virus
~ Common in sheep and goats.
~ Prevented with a vaccination.

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~Contagious bacterial infection(Extremely)
~ Foot bath solution help the healing process.
~ Preventable with regular trimming and sanitation.

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~Bacterial disease
~ Sudden death.
~ Vaccines are use to help prevent it.

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~ Bacteria that lives in the soil and enters the animal through a wound.
~ All livestock are affected.
~ Any animal recently docked or castrated are a big factor, but are vaccinated.

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~ Caused by fungus or mold.
~Loss of appetite

Gasping

Sleepiness

Convulsions

Death
~ Prevention is using mold free litter.
~ No treatment.

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~ Protozoan parasites
~ Bloody diarrhea

Weight loss

Droopiness
~Coccidiostats

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~ Virus
~ Yellow cankers in the mouth and eyes.

Scabs around the head.
~ No treatments.

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~ Virus
~ Gasping for air

Sneezing

Breathing difficulties

Tremors and paralysis
~ No treatments

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Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome

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Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome

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~ Viral disease
~ Late term fetal death

Abortion

Weak pigs

Respiratory disease in young pigs.
~ No treatments.
~ Prevented with a vaccination.

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~Drugs and vaccines are not effective in controlling and treating TGE in swine.
~ Vomiting

-Diarrhea with white, yellow or green feces.

-Kills almost 100% of baby pigs.
~ Affects swine.

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~ Coughing in young pigs,

reduces feed intake and causes reduced gains.
~ Affects swine.
~ Vaccination and sanitation

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~ Bacterial
~ Bloody scours are common.
~Use of one of the several recommended drugs in the drinking water.

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~ Bacterial infection that causes inflammation in mammary glands.
~ Common in dairy cow udders.
~ Prevented with sanitation and proper milking procedures.

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~ Bacterial disease that lives in soils and infects animals through wounds.
~Sudden death

Lameness

Swollen muscles

High fever

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~Closed eyes

Fever

Coughing

Diarrhea

discharge from nose.
~More common in young cattle during times of stress.
~antibiotics and sulfa drugs.
~ Virus.

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~Microorganism that causes abortion during last half of pregnancy, afterbirth retention or sterility.
-Must be slaughtered and disposed of properly.
~ Vaccinating breeding females.

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~ Subcutaneous- under the skin

-angled approximately 45 degrees

~ Intramuscular- into the muscle

-90 degree angle

~ Intranasal- into the nose

-no needle used

-vaccine is deposited through small tube into the nasal cavity
~ Intravenous- into the vein

-angled approximately 25 degrees

-jugular vein is most common vein used but caution must be taken to not hit carotid artery

~ Intradermal- into the epidermal layer of the skin

-angled approximately 10-15 degrees.

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~ substances that develop resistance to disease

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~ Active- immunity that is acquired naturally due to exposure to substance that stimulates antibody production.
~ Vaccination
~ Passive- antibodies that are transferred from mother to baby or injected into an animal from an animal that is already immune.
~ Colostrum

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~ Caused by a specific disease causing microorganism and/or pathogen.
~ Virus
Bacteria
Protozoa

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~ Caused by environmental or nutrition factors rather than a specific microorganism.
~ Faulty nutrition

Trauma

Toxic substances

Congenital defects

Metabolic disorders

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~ Removing a portion of the tail.
~ Helps with sanitation and the build up of manure on the back side.

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~ Removal of sharp side teeth on piglets.
~ Helps prevents injury to sow during nursing.

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~ Helps prevent cannibalism in caged birds.
~ Hot iron tool or infrared tool

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~ Prevents unplanned pregnancies and make the animal easier to handle.
~ Can be preformed when the animal turns 6 months old.
~ Performed in both surgical or bloodless.

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~ Removes the horn form the cattle and prevents it from growing back.
~ Helps prevent injury to cattle, people and facilities
~ Better to perform it on calves. the older the animal the more stress and bleeding it can cause.
~ Can be done chemically or mechanically.

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~ Ticks- bloodsuckers

~ Lice- bloodsuckers and biting

~ Mites- cause mange

~ Blowfly- screwworm in larval stage

~ Heel Fly- cattle grub in larval stage

~ Horn Fly- smallest, bloodsucking species

~ Other kinds of flies including horsefly, housefly and stable fly.
Causes loss for the producers, because some parasites damage the meat.

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~ Roundworms- stomach worms, pin worms, lung worms.

~Tapeworms- broad tapeworm, beef or pork tapeworm.

~Flukes- liver fluke.

~Protozoa- coccidia.
Most cause weight lose-which in turn can cause the producer to lose money.

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~ Sanitation
~ Bio-security
~ Record Keeping
~ Feeding Practices