Great season, but foot abscess on the rise

Kristen Frost
Updated August 5 2020 - 1:47pm, first published 12:00pm
Foot abscess is more common in good seasons when stock are heavy, or in good condition, and are grazing in long, wet grass. Photo - Kristy Stone LLS Vet, Gundagai.
Foot abscess is more common in good seasons when stock are heavy, or in good condition, and are grazing in long, wet grass. Photo - Kristy Stone LLS Vet, Gundagai.

With a bumper of a season across a vast area of Australia's south east, adverse conditions such as foot abscess in sheep is starting to ramp up.

Kristen Frost

Kristen Frost

National Sheep and Wool Writer

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