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Diseases of Dairy Goats
Diseases of Dairy Goats WREP0033  
Author(s): Norman Gates
This bulletin provides a general discussion of parasites and diseases that commonly affect dairy goats, such as rumen impaction, ketosis (pregnancy disease), laminitis (founder), hypocalcemia (milk fever), brucellosis, tuberculosis, mastitis, caseous lymphadenitis (boils, abscesses), contagious ecthyma (sore mouth, CE), ringworm, arthritis, enterotoxemia (overeating disease), pneumonia, and contagious foot rot. Also discusses diseases that primarily affect kids, such as navel ill, infectious diarrhea (scours), and coccidiosis. Includes control measures for the parasites nematodes (roundworms), tapeworms, lungworms, lice, as well as signs of clinical parasitism and environmental conditions that help prevent diseases. Supplemented with photographs and a table that shows the effectiveness of some anthelminics on commmon parasite infections.

Publisher: Western Regional Extension
Published: April 1990.   Revised: April 1990.   8 pages.
 
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