FASH15-16: Goat Medicine Flashcards
What are goats most often poisoned by?
Goats are very susceptible to all kinds of poisoning because they will eat anything
Rhododendrons
Lead
Yew tree clippings
How do you treat a goat poisoning?
Give fluids, activated charcoal, NSAIDs, rumenotomy
What are the causes of diarrhoea in young kids?
Dietary
Viral
Bacterail
- E. coli
- Clostridium perfringens
- Salmonellosis
Cryptosporidium
What are the main causes of diarrhoea in older animals?
GI parasitism
Coccidiosis
Enterotoxaemia
What is the agent of enterotoxaemia in goats?
Clostridium perfringens
How do you prevent enterotoxaemia in goats?
Vacciantion
What is the agent of parasitic gastroenteritis?
Teladorsagia/trichostrongylus
Haemonchus
How do you treat parasitic gastroenteritis?
Fenbendazole
Ivermectin
Why are goats more susceptible to parastiic gastroenteritis than sheep?
Sheep are grazers, goats are browsers
Browsers eat bushes and so never developed resistance to worms like the grazers have
Thus, when forced to graze, they get hit hard
What is the agent that causes fascioliasis?
Fasciola hepatica
What is fascioliasis?
Liver fluke
How is johne’s transmitted?
Faeco-oral
Milk/colostrum
How do you control against Johne’s?
Cull infected animals (and family line)
Kidding time hygiene
Vacciante
What causes abortion in goats?
Toxoplasmosis
Chlamydophila abortus
Listeria
Campylobacter
Salmonella
Stress
Prostaglandins
What are the causes of respiratory disease in goats?
Pasteurellosis
- Mannheimia haemolytica
Viruses
Mycoplasma
- M. ovipneumoniae
- M. capricolum
- M. conjunctivae
Parasites
- Dictyocaulus filaria
- Muellerius capillaris
How do you treat pasteurellosis?
Penicillin or oxytetracyclin and NSAIDs
How do you treat parasites?
Ivermectin
Fenbedazole
What common treatments are toxic to goats?
Tilmicosin is toxic
NSAIDs are toxic to goat kids!
What is the agent of focal symmetrical encephalomalacia?
Clostridium perfringens
What is the agent of meningoencephalitis?
E. coli secondary to septicaemia
What is another name for copper deficiency in goats and sheep?
Swayback
What nervous disease affect neonatal goats?
Focal symmetrical encephalomalacia
Meningoencphalitis
Tetanus
Louping ill
Copper deficiency
Congenital
Hypoglycaemia
Birth trauma
What nervous disease affect goat kids up to 7 months?
Delayed copper deficiency
Spinal abscesses
CAE
What nervous disease affect goats 7 month to adult?
Scrapie
Listeriosis
CCN
Tetanus
CAE
Brain abscess
Poisons
How long do you withhold milk from gaots being treated for mastitis?
7 days
What is the agent of caseous lymphadenitis?
Corynebacteirum pseudotuberculosis
How is CLA transmitted?
Organism shed from dishcarging abscesses
Enters via skin wound or intact skin
How do you treat CLA?
No treatment
What are the non-pruritic skin disease of goats?
STaphylococcal dermatitis
Demodectic Mange
Ringworm
What is the agent of caprine arthritis encephalitis?
Lintivirus
How is CAE transferred?
Mainly via milk/colostrum
Direct contact, venereal, blood
What are the clinical signs of CAE?
Arthritis
Encephalitis
Pneumonia
Mastitis
How do you treat CAE?
None - supportive only
How do you control against CAE?
Cull postives and offspring
Do not feed colostrum to kids
Remove kids at birth pre-suckling
What is hydrometra?
Fluid accumulation in uterus with presence of persistent CL
Following cycle with no pregnancy or after embryonic death and resorption
What is the TPR of goats?
Temp: 38.6-40C
RR: Adults - 15-30 kids - 20-40
HR: 65-95 beats/min
