Past pneumonia outbreaks among bighorn sheep in Washington and other parts of the western United States have been linked to contact between wild sheep and domestic sheep or goats, which can carry ...

Bighorn pneumonia is a very popular disease with anyone that wants to eliminate domestic sheep from the western United States.  Any time there is a bighorn pneumonia die off, ...

Test results from two rams from bighorn sheep hunting district 622 have tested positive for a microorganism that can cause pneumonia. One of the sheep tested was harvested by a hunter this past fall.

MISSOULA, Mont. — A group of University of Montana researchers are in year two of a five-year study funded by Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks to track bighorn sheep and mountain goats. There ...

Pneumonia outbreak hits bighorn sheep. Published 7:00 pm Monday, March 30, 2020. By Jayson Jacoby EO Media Group. Baker County is home to two bighorn sheep herds, the California subspecies of ...

Domestic sheep are carriers of the diseases Mannheimia haemolycta, which causes a deadly form of pneumonia that can wipe out an entire herd of wild bighorns from a single contact, and Mycoplasma ...

FAIRBANKS—The respiratory bacteria first confirmed to be infecting wild Alaska sheep and goats last week has now been found in additional animals.

Past pneumonia outbreaks among bighorn sheep in Washington and other parts of the western United States have been linked to contact between wild sheep and domestic sheep or goats that carry ...

Researchers in the Bitterroot Valley have seen significant mortality in bighorn sheep over the winter, with all collared rams in the Skalkaho herd reported to have died.

The typical life span of domestic sheep and goats in free-range settings is about 10 to 13 years. ... Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae which causes infectious pneumonia in bighorn sheep, ...

Bob was not native to the Franklin Mountains, and he posed a risk of spreading a fatal bacteria called Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, which TPWD called "devastating" to desert bighorn sheep populations.

Even for bighorn sheep, an animal that survives in some of the harshest terrain in the West, the Teton Range herd is tough. They live year-round between 8,500 and 11,000 feet, where winter ...