Goat Medicine 1 & 2 Flashcards
Body condition scoring in Goat Medicine?
- Lumbar and Sternal Scoring
- Average or double figure
- Fat deposits not in same place as sheep
- Don’t compare to sheep BCS
- Practice
Describe using Local anesthetic in Goats?
- Very susceptible to local
- Toxic at very small doses
- If using mix dilute in water for injection
- 5mg/ml Lidocaine (apply to procaine) dose = 30kg goat = 1.5ml 50mg/ml adrenacaine
Goat disbudding?
- Legally must be done by a Vet
- Horn growth rapid - disbud b/ 2-7 days
- Not the same as disbudding a calf
- Local anesthetics not well tolerated -> low toxic dose
What to be careful when disbudding?
Very thin skull - easy to fracture skull-easy to cook brain
Should we deHORN?
NO avoid!
what does pseudopreg look like in goats?
Abdominal Enlargement.
Udder development.
physiological false preg in goat?
Associated with persistent CL.
Prostaglandin 2 doses 12 days apart of Lutalyse
PGE in goat?
- Limited immunity with age
- Differ from sheep
- Worming treatments needed throughout life
- Housing is usually necessary for large herds
- Limited grazing with many holdings/farms
- Limited licenced anthelmintics
monitoring for parasites?
REGULAR FAECAL EGG COUNTING AND
MONITORING
why do we get PGE
- Lack of available grazing
- Lack of ability to rotate pasture
- Significant egg numbers excreted
- Pasture ends up with very high burdens
which aetiologies to PGE?
Teladorsagia (Abomasum)
Trichostrongylus (Small intestine)
Nematodirrus (Small intestine)
Haemonchus (Abomasum)
(Moniezia)
Fluke- Fasciola Heptacia
How to avoid Parasitic gastroenteritis?
Avoid co-grazing with sheep and camelids
- need goat-specific health plans as parasites/host interaction different
Describe Haemonchus Contortus
- Late summer
- No D+
- Anaemia
- Hypoproteinaemia - bottle jaw
- Listessness
- Death
- More susceptible than sheep?
Describe Fluke?
- Not common
- Needs to be on DDX list as possible
- Acute & chronic fluke poss
- Dx on Hx and CE?
Acute Fluke?
= sudden death from pre-patent fluke through the liver
* Diagnosis on PM
Chronic Fluke?
= adult fluke in liver causing weight loss/ poor
performance
* Diagnosed with FEC- sediment test
Use of FLukicides yes or no?
Can be toxic & fatal - use sheep dose DO NOT INC DOSE
Describe Eprinex or Epricis?
- Licenced product
- Eprinex=Pour on product
- Epricis=Injectable
- Should we be using other products too?
- Nil milk withhold
Oral anthelmintics vs injectables?
Oral anthelmintics perform better that injectables and pour ons
Anthelmintic dose rates?
- Goat dose different to sheep dose
Correct use
- Education of owners on wormer groups
- Education on owners of the application and storage of
products - In date drugs?
- Naïve livestock keepers?
SCOPS principles?
- Dose to heaviest weight not average weight
- Correct calculations for dosage made
- Accurate weights!
What infectious dx does CAE stand for?
Caprine Arthritis Encephalitis
CAE (/Maedi Visna) Signs?
- Lameness
- Swollen joints -> Carpal joint
- Weight loss
- Reduced milk production -> One side of udder fibrosed