Good health management practices include: buying healthy, disease free unstressed livestock; early detection and treatment of sick animals; preventing stress with well designed structures and treatment; and establishing diagnosis and treatment practices with your veterinarian.
|  | Anthrax is caused by bacteria known as Bacillus anthracis. |
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| | Blue-green algae is not an algae, but a bacteria called "cyanobacteria." |
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| | Numerous farms and ranches use dugouts as their main source of water or for watering livestock on summer pasture. |
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| | Foot and Mouth disease is an extremely serious livestock disease and it is one of the most contagious of animal diseases. |
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| | Toxic levels of nitrates in forages are always a possibility whenever the normal growth of plants is disrupted by hail, drought, spray drift or frost. |
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| | Photosensitivity is caused directly by photodynamic agents, such as hypericin in St. John's Wart (H. perforatum) which is absorbed and then reacts with light at the skin's surface. |
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| | It is important that producers be familiar with the identification, successful control or eradication methods, and ways to prevent further infestations. |
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| | Who can report livestock abuse or neglect? |
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| | Any intensive livestock operation requiring the consumption of 5,000 m³ (1.1 million imperial gallons) of water, roughly equivalent to what 300 animal units would use annually, requires approval of the Saskatchewan Watershed Authority (SWA). |
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| | West Nile Virus clinical signs relate to the central nervous system, because the virus causes an encephalomyelitis or brain and spinal cord infection. |
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