Territory Stories

Animal Health

Details:

Title

Animal Health

Other title

Animal Health Newsletter

Creator

Northern Territory. Department of Primary Industry and Resources

Collection

Animal Health; Animal Health; E-Journals; PublicationNT

Date

2016-11-01

Notes

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).; This publication contains many links to external sites. These external sites may no longer be active.

Language

English

Subject

Animal health; Animals; Diseases; Livestock; Periodicals.

Publisher name

Northern Territory Government

Place of publication

Berrimah

Volume

Newsletter, November 2016

Now known as

Livestock Biosecurity news

Previously known as

Animal health news from the Northern Territory

File type

application/pdf

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Copyright owner

Northern Territory Government

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/305782

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/357818

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/357819

Page content

DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRY AND RESOURCES Page 12 of 12 Animal Health Newsletter the vaccination programs were providing a protective level of antibodies against the disease was not known, however. Treatment There is no treatment for the affected cattle. Vaccination is not effective for cattle once the animals are showing signs of having botulism as it takes more than five weeks after vaccination to produce protective antibodies. Prevention - THREE MUST DOs 1. Vaccination at weaning and then giving the boosters every year or three years as recommended. 2. Supplementary feeding with phosphorus and protein. 3. Removal of all carcases and bonesthis will limit bone chewing. Figure 6: Animal showing signs of botulism