This full text online report offers a summary of the best practices for providing a humane death for sheep and goats in the absence of a veterinarian. This factsheet on the occurence of footrot in sheep was written by Dr. Douglas Tweedie, a veterinarian. This factsheet provides information on the causes, symptoms, treatments, and prevention and control of footrot caused by the bacteria dichelobacter nodosus in sheep. This factsheet is published on the Web by the Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Agriculture and was updated during January 2000. Originally created as a draft chapter for a book, Dr Sangster and colleagues have adapted the material into a Web based resource.
Topics covered include gastrointestinal nematodes, flukes, tapeworms and protzoa.
Additionally, there is a parasite checklist for the major internal parasites found in sheep in Australia, and where in the sheep they are found, as well as an introduction to parasite dossiers. Published on the Web by the Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Pathology, University of Sydney. The Internal Parasites of Sheep and Goats is published on the Web by the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania to supplement the course, Parasitology 4001. Parasites covered by these lectures include Haemonchus contortus, Ostertagia circumcincta, and Trichostrongylus axei and colubriformis. Information is provided on the illnesses caused by these parasites, including epidemiology and diagnosis, and details of the parasites' life cycles are also provided.