Rounding up the sheep at Waipuru Station, Footrot Flats country.Credit: Anthony Dennis It could be scene (panel?) straight out of Footrot Flats, the beloved and long-running New Zealand daily ...

An Australian dog trainer has successfully taught her dog to detect footrot in sheep. The innovative process could help streamline footrot detection if implemented on farms. Footrot — a ...

The breeding values will be used to help breeders select genetics that make their sheep more resistant to footrot, therefore removing the need to treat or vaccinate against it, and lifting ...

Sheep graziers across New South Wales are being warned that an outbreak of virulent footrot is spreading, despite dry seasonal conditions. Graziers have also been told that the risk of infection ...

Footrot is infectious, caused by the bacterium Dichelobacter nodosus. Previous studies have shown that the rapid treatment of a sheep with footrot increases its rate of recovery and decreases ...

The town's entrance at Kimbolton Rd, on State Highway 54, is marked with a billboard featuring a drawing of a flock of sheep and the Footrot Flats character, Dog. Loader said the crowd's singalong ...

The disease is easily transmitted via pasture, contaminated bedding or access routes and can be carried and spread by sheep showing no outward disease symptoms. In a flock where footrot takes hold ...

Murray Ball with his border collie dog "Finn", inspiration for sheep dog in syndicated cartoon Footrot Flats. Picture: AFP His friend and colleague Tom Scott told The New Zealand Herald ...

Murray Ball with his border collie "Finn", inspiration for sheep dog in syndicated cartoon Footrot Flats. Picture: AFP His friend and colleague Tom Scott told The New Zealand Herald, he received a ...