The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife adopted a new rule last week intended to reduce the risk of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae transmission from domestic sheep and goats to bighorn sheep.

Domestic and wild sheep and goats can easily spread diseases. A bacteria called M. ovi is highly transmissible and has devastated bighorn sheep in Texas, TPWD said in a news release.

Domestic sheep and goats pose one of the biggest threats to wild bighorn sheep health, he added. “Contact between domestic sheep and bighorn sheep increases the probability of respiratory disease ...

The Department of Land and Natural Resources will be conducting animal control operations, targeting feral goats, feral sheep ...

The animals at One Heart Wild — a group of more than 70 that includes horses, cows, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, dogs, cats, bunnies, chinchillas and guinea pigs and one turkey — come to the ...

The animals at One Heart Wild — a group of more than 70 that includes horses, cows, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, dogs, cats, bunnies, chinchillas and guinea pigs and one turkey — come to the ...

Past outbreaks among bighorn sheep have been linked to contact between wild sheep and domestic sheep or goats that carry, but are unaffected by, the bacteria that cause the disease.

“A new large-scale genetic study has determined that domestic sheep and goats are the source of bronchopneumonia in bighorn sheep and mountain goats in the western United States Using nearly 600 ...

The plan would minimize domestic sheep and goat grazing and wild bighorns. No existing grazing allotments would be changed with the project, according to a 2019 Forest Service news release.

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