Farmers know that animals are sick when they notice changes in behaviour such as refusal to eat, keeping to shady areas, or physical signs such as different breathing, coughing, body swellings etc.
Serious livestock farmers will keep observing their animals on daily basis to make sure no such signs miss their attention. It is important to catch such symptoms at an early stage in order to treat before the disease becomes too serious to treat.
The below guide to diseases judging from symptoms is a tool to assist farmers find out what may be wrong when their animals look unwell or die suddenly. It aso provides guidance on how to submit samples from sick animals (or whole dead animals) to a laboratory for analysis.
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