Fresh from February’s Cape Town stink-up debacle, Kuwaiti livestock traders and transporters Al Mawashi have another livestock export shipment destined for the Arabian Gulf, and […]
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Walkerville to host a Spring Show in September
The dates for this year’s Walkerville Agricultural Show have been fixed. The show will be a Spring Show and will take place at the Walkerville […]
COMMENT: How to raise awareness of animal cruelty
COMMENT – Cape Town’s port controllers did animal rights activists a huge favour last week by electing to allocate a berth on the Duncan Dock’s […]
South Africa’s agri show dates for 2024
Keen show-goers, open your diaries. Here are the dates of some of the major agricultural shows around the country in 2024. 21-23 March: Kicking off […]
12 Skills you will learn on a Smallholding
If you live on a smallholding you will learn a bunch of skills, and acquire a bunch of knowledge, that your townie counterparts would never […]
Horse Sickness vaccine backlog to be cleared, says OBP
If South Africa’s government-owned animal vaccine manufacturer, Onderstepoort Biological Products (OBP) keeps to its word, up to 90 000 doses of African Horse Sickness (AHS) […]
UPDATE: Are RHVD infections slowing?
Although it’s still early days anecdotal evidence tentatively suggests that the rapid spread of the fatal Rabbit Haemmorhagic Viral Disease outbreak throughout southern Africa may […]
UPDATE: Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease Spreading Fast Countrywide
The killer Rabbit Haemorrhagic Viral Disease (RHD or RHVD) has now been positively identified along the Garden Route and in the Southern and Eastern Cape. […]
UPDATE: Rabbit Disease Spreading Fast in Gauteng
Gauteng’s rabbits, both domestic and wild, continue to become infected with the fatal and highly infectious Rabbit Haemmorhagic Disease (RHD). Confirmed cases Since yesterday, cases […]
Gauteng Rabbits Die from Haemmorhagic Disease
An epidemic outbreak of Rabbit Haemmorhagic Disease (RHD, sometimes called RVHD) is sweeping though Gauteng, infecting and killing both domesticated and wild rabbits and hares. […]