Displaying items by tag: facial eczema

Facial Eczema (FE) is a production-limiting, potentially fatal disease that affects both sheep and cattle.

Farmers are being asked to get their crap – the ovine variety – together and participate in a facial eczema (FE) research project.

A rapid antigen test (RAT) aimed at early detection of facial eczema (FE) in ruminants may help manage a disease that costs the New Zealand economy millions of dollars each year.

MPI’s Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures fund will invest over $35,000 in a project with Tokaora Diagnostics to develop a prototype facial eczema (FE) rapid antigen test (RAT) and undertake field testing.

The main sheep health problems that cause loss of weight and death are facial eczema (FE), worms and pneumonia.

A free text message service has been launched to alert farmers to changes in Facial Eczema (FE) spore counts within their region.

Conditions are ripe for facial eczema to become a problem for dairy farmers in the coming weeks, says James Allen, AgFirst.

Conditions are ripe for facial eczema to become a problem for dairy farmers in the coming weeks, says James Allen, AgFirst.

A warning has been issued to farmers about the dangers right now of both facial eczema and flystrike.

Facial eczema is chronic toxicity caused by the ingestion of spores from pasture and their conversion into sporidesmin in blood.