goat

Question 1

How do we name the adult female?

Answer 1

doe

Question 2

How do we name the adult intact male?

Answer 2

Buck/billy

Question 3

How do we name the adult neutered male?

Answer 3

wether

Question 4

How do we name the baby goat?

Answer 4

kid

Question 5

Age of puberty

Answer 5

4 months

Question 6

Females are polyestrous or monoestrous?

Answer 6

polyestrous

Question 7

Females are seasonal or non seasonal?

Answer 7

seasonal

Question 8

When is the breeding season, if any?

Answer 8

January-july

Question 9

Length of estrous cycle?

Answer 9

` 21 days on average

Question 10

Length of estrus period?

Answer 10

24 to 36 hrs

Question 11

11) How do we detect the estrus period?

Answer 11

Mucous discharge from the vulva, swollen vulva, bleating, tails wagging, pacing and standing.

Question 12

12) What is the best time to do mating?

Answer 12

If goat is in standing heat in the morning, inseminate in the afternoon.

Question 13

13) Is artificial insemination done

Answer 13

yes

Question 14

explain the method of AI

Answer 14

Vaginal or cervical insemination techinques used, also if semen is frozen trans cervical or laparoscopic intrauterine insemination techniques must be used. Semen is collected is by an artificial vagina or by electroejaculator

Question 15

14) Pregnancy length

Answer 15

150 days

Question 16

15) Describe the type of placenta.

Answer 16

cotyledonary

Question 17

16) How do we detect pregnancy? Give 2 different methods.

Answer 17

Using real time ultrasonography or measuring progesterone concentration in milk or serum after doe is bred.

Question 18

17) How do we name the parturition?

Answer 18

Kidding

Question 19

18) How long lasts the parturition?

Answer 19

few to 24 hrs

Question 20

19) Litter size:

Answer 20

1- 6 kids average 3

Question 21

20) Give 2 characteristic concerning the anatomy of the penis

Answer 21

Urethral process, fibroelastic pe

Question 22

21) What is the buck effect?

Answer 22

sudden intro of a male will induce ovulation of anestrus goats

Question 23

22) Name 2 different breeds of meat goats.

Answer 23

Genemaster and Boer

Question 24

23) Name 2 different breeds of milk goats.

Answer 24

Alpine and LaMancha

Question 25

24) What is chlamydiosis?

Answer 25

bacteria infection, = fever, resp disorder,dyspnea

Question 26

25) What is Q-fever?

Answer 26

An infection of goats caused by Coxiella burnetii. What are the clinical signs? Clinical signs include subclinical, occasional abortion outbreaks, susceptible pregnant females develop necrotising placentitis (which causes the abortion), and some show anorexia and depression one to two days before aborting. Goats may become immune to abortion due to this disease after infection, but remain subclinical (may carry organisms indefinitely and shed sporadically in milk and at parturition).