Factors that Could Predispose Farm Animals to Diseases

The infection of farm animals by organisms causing disease depends on many factors known as predisposing or stressing factors. These factors can reduce the resistance of a host animal to a disease. Therefore, predisposing factors may refer to factors that make an animal to be prone to disease attack.

These factors include:

(a) Malnutrition: This can expose farm animals to disease. Young animals denied colostrumColostrum is the first breast milk produced by the mammary glands of humans and other mammals immediately following the delivery of the newborn, and it's full of nutrients and antioxidants essential... More can develop low immunity and may fall sick easily.