Protecting Your Poultry Flock From Bird Flu

Protecting Your Poultry Flock From Bird Flu

  Samantha Wisely & Bridget Baker, UF/IFAS Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation   Bird flu or avian influenza is a virus that circulates among wild birds around the world. Often when the virus comes into contact with domestic birds, like...
Keep Your Rabbits Healthy and Safe from RHDV2

Keep Your Rabbits Healthy and Safe from RHDV2

Samantha Wisely, Wildlife Extension Specialist, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida   The Florida Panhandle is home to many rabbit owners who raise rabbits for meat, breeding, exhibition at rabbit shows, or raise them as pets....
What’s All the Buzz about COVID in Deer?

What’s All the Buzz about COVID in Deer?

Samantha M. Wisely, Extension Specialist for Wildlife Diseases, University of Florida – What are SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19? Sudden acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2, is the virus responsible for the global pandemic that began in late 2019....
Hope for the Wild Hog Problem in Florida

Hope for the Wild Hog Problem in Florida

Dr. Samantha Wisely, Dept. of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida – Wild hogs, feral swine, European boar – these are all names for the invasive pigs that live throughout Florida. A handful were originally brought to Florida by Hernando de...