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- Animal Health
- Anthrax:
- Bees:
- Brucellosis:
How to identify and treat this disease.
- Congo fever:
Congo fever is transmitted by the bontlegged tick. Symptoms and protection against the disease.
- Johne's disease:
- Lungsickness (CBPP)
- Lungsickness (CBPP)
A more advanced guide to the disease.
- Mastitis:
Mastitis can lower milk production.
- Mastitis:
Mastitis kan melkproduksie baie benadeel (Afrikaans).
- Parasitic cysts and lesions in organs:
Parasitic cysts in meat can cause diseases in people.
- Rabies - a killer disease:
Rabies affects all warm-blooded animals, as well as man.
- Rabies - the law:
Vaccinating your pets. What the law requires.
- Tapeworm:
Beef tapeworm also infects humans. Prevent contamination.
- Tapeworm:
Beesvleislintwurms en masels (Afrikaans).
- Tick-borne diseases:
Diseases spread by ticks such as heartwater, redwater and gallsickness.
- Beef Cattle
- Guidelines
- Castration:
- Dehorning:
- Legal identification marks:
- Weaning of calves:
- Manuals
- Establishing and managing small herd of beef cattle
- Guidelines for animal traction
- Weaning of calves
- Guidelines for urban and peri urban
- Guidelines for planning and construction of a feedlot
- Beef cattle management
- Food safety
- Safe meat:
Buy meat from a butchery, supermarket or spaza shop.
- Goats
- Information
- Cashmere :
- Goats:
- Vaccination programme:
Goats are susceptable to a number of diseases. A good vaccination programme can keep them healthy.
- Manuals:
- - Status of the South African Goat Industry
- Livestock
- - Milk Goat Model
- Exports:
All the procedures to be followed when you want to export fresh meat from South Africa.
- Health:
- Imports:
- Slaughterings:
Slaughterings and consumer confidence.
- Terminology:
Explaining some technical terms in the Animal Improvement Act, 1998 (Act No. 62 of 1998). Livestock Development Strategy
- Pigs
- Information
- Boer met varke:
- Farming with pigs:
- Health:
How to know if your pigs are healthy.
- Manuals:
- -
Keeping pigs safe in swine fever
- -
Management programme for small farm piggery
- Poultry
- Information
- Muscovy ducks:
Muscovy ducks have a number of advantages over other poultry.
- Newcastle disease:
Newcastle disease is a serious disease that poses a constant threat to poultry in Southern Africa.
- Manuals:
- Rabbits
- - Household broiler production
- Information
- Keeping rabbits:
Farming with rabbits is becoming increasingly popular.
- Manuals:
- Sheep
- - Household Rabbit Production
- Breeding:
- Dipping:
- Aquaculture
- Manuals:
- - Database of fish farms within the provinces outlining threats and opportunities
- - Aquaculture 2006
Info packs available at the ARC
- Manuals and Books available per order from the ARC www.arc.agric.za
- Beef Cattle Manual
- Beef Production Manual
- Dairy Cattle Manual
- Dairy Herd Improvement in South Africa
- Diseases of Ostriches and other Ratites
- Heating of Broilers & Broiler Housing
- Introduction to Poultry Production
- Manual on Housing for Pigs
- Mastitis by koeie
- Mutton
- Ostrich Diseases
- Pig Production in South Africa
- Small-scale broiler house
- Small-scale milking shed
- Small-scale poultry housing in South Africa