Livestock & animals

The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development supply chain support, research and development and rigorous biosecurity systems underpin the economic success of Western Australia’s livestock industries. In 2011/12, the WA livestock industries contributed 26% of the state’s agriculture, fisheries and forestry production, worth approximately $2 billion at the farm gate.

WA is a world leader in live exports, super fine wool production and dryland sheep and grain systems. Both cattle and sheep systems are focused on export markets to Asia and the Middle East. WA also has innovative, world-class integrated dairy and pork industries meeting local and South East Asian demand for safe, fresh milk and pork. The WA poultry industry is growing strongly as a result of increasing domestic consumption.

Global demand for high-quality, safe animal protein and products produced according to high animal welfare standards will continue to rise in coming years. Increasingly DAFWA will partner with industry -- locally, nationally and internationally -- in transformational business projects to capitalise on this demand.

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  • Cow and sheep grazing in paddock

    Brucellosis in animals

    25 July 2016

    Brucellosis is an economically important bacterial disease of animals that can also affect people.

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    Thiamine deficiency induced polioencephomalacia (PEM) of sheep and cattle

    28 November 2013

    Thiamine, also known as vitamin B1, is normally produced by bacteria in the rumen of cattle and sheep on well-balanced roughage diets.

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    Keeping backyard chickens

    2 October 2013

    Chickens can be a great asset to any small landholding. They provide eggs, produce fertiliser, control insects and weeds, eat kitchen scraps and loosen soil while scratching.

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    Botulism in cattle

    28 November 2013

    Botulism is a rapid onset, usually fatal disease caused by the botulinum toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum.

  • Melioidosis in animals

    9 March 2017

    Melioidosis is a disease caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which can affect animals and humans.

  • Ticks found on the ear of a cow.

    Bovine anaemia due to Theileria orientalis group (BATOG)

    29 November 2013

    Bovine anaemia due to Theileria orientalis group (BATOG) is a disease of cattle that is caused by the blood parasite Theileria orientalis and spread by the bush tick (Haemaphy

  • Reportable animal diseases - Western Australia

    16 March 2015

    The Biosecurity and Agriculture Management Act 2007 requires that certain diseases must be reported to the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) if they are kno

  • Bat with Australian bat lyssavirus

    Animal health and One Health in Western Australia

    27 October 2017

     ‘One Health’ is an internationally supported approach that recognises that the health and well-being of animals, people and the environment are closely linked and that international, national and

  • One horse drinking at a water trough as another horse stands nearby.

    Strangles of horses

    12 December 2013

    Strangles is an infectious, bacterial disease of horses, which may affect any horse not previously exposed to the disease.

  • Regulation of hormone growth promotants (HGPs) for cattle in Western Australia

    12 June 2015

    Hormone growth promotants (HGPs) are slow-release implants of naturally occurring hormones found in most animal and plant life. They are used to improve growth rates and feed efficiency in the beef

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