In an “early warning note” from B.C.’s Ministry of Forests to government officials, it was reported that psoroptes mange has now been found in the eastern Okanagan Valley bighorn sheep.

Sheep scab is an intense itching skin disease, caused by a parasitic mite, Psoroptes ovis. It affects more than 2,000 farms and 30% of sheep in Wales each year. Partnership.

Cause - Sheep scab is caused by the mite psoroptes ovis - cattle are not affected. Mites are most commonly transmitted by direct contact with infested sheep, but can survive off sheep for 17 days and ...

Mange, caused by parasitic mites, is a damaging, distressing and difficult to control condition, seen in many types of domestic animal, particularly sheep and cattle. Of particular consequence is the ...

Bighorn sheep are in trouble in the Similkameen, and while biologists can't pinpoint the reason the number of sheep is dwindling, they suspect it has something to do with a mite called psoroptes.