What you'll learn

• Farm animal diseases:
• a) Bacteria:
• - mastitis
• - contagious abortion in ruminants, pigs, etc.
• b) Fungal:
• - ring worm (all farm animals)
• c) Viral:
• - foot and mouth disease (all animals except poultry)
• d) Protozoan:
• - coccidiosis in poultry and rabbit
• - trypanosomiasis (nagana) (cattle)
• e) Worms (all farm animals)
• f) Nutritional-bloat (cattle)
• Modes of transmission of farm animals disease: - contact with the infected animals, or discharges, or vector (tsetse fly), etc
• The symptoms of farm animal diseases e.g. enlarged udder, sores, high fever, blood stained, diarrhea, loss of weight, loss of hair, reduced productivity, abortion, death
• Effects of diseases on farm animals:
• - reduce productivity
• - loss of appetite
• - loss of weight
• - death
• Methods of prevention and control:
• - adopting good sanitation practices
• - medication/ immunization
• - isolation/disposal etc