Facial Eczema booklet

Facial eczema (FE) can have significant impacts on dairy cattle productivity, health and welfare. Although the name suggests it is a skin disease, in most outbreaks most animals in a herd show little or no visible skin lesions, but have suffered liver damage. It is these animals that give the major economic impact.

Production losses in dairy cattle arise from animal deaths, weight losses or reduced weight gain, reduced milk yield and reproductive performance.