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Minimizing our Enterotoxemia Problem |
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Minimizing our Enterotoxemia Problem |
| Is
the Boer Goat Breed too "High Maintenance"? (article) |
Breeders and associations leading us in the wrong direction - (article) | Characteristics
and their priorities - (article) |
What are our
main health problems causing high maintenance -
(article) |
New management
techniques for a new focus - (article) |
Defining what
our "quality" animals really means - (June 14, 2007 |
Reader Feedback (feedback) |
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Enterotoxemia is a problem we are assuming we
have had. We have never taken a dead animal and had a necropsy done
to confirm this. The most common symptom is a kid is healthy one day
and dead the next. It is one of the most common problems in sheep
and goats. It is also called "overeaters disease". Similar to the
bloat problem, we saw our problems of dead kids just showing up to
be focused around the time we had our wet spring and our young lush,
green pastures. This is a common problem with sheep and goats and not just related to Boers. There is information on managing this problem better and we did not follow this as well as we now believe we need to. There is a vaccine called CD/T that can be given for this and we have faithfully given it every year. However, the timing of our vaccines might not have been the best. We have always given the vaccine once a year to our adults and then given a shot to our kids around the age of two months with a booster 3 weeks later. Well several of our kids never reached the age of 2 months before they died. Our new management approach for minimizing Enterotoxemia includes:
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