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Goats Flashcards

1
Q

Why are commercial dairy goats housed all year round?

A

Goats don’t produce age-related resistance to parasitic roundworms eg PGE (unlike sheep and cattle)

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2
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Which are the 2 primary species of Clostridial disease that affect goats?

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Struck (C. perfringens type C)
Lamb dysentry (C. perfringens type B)
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3
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What are the clinical signs of clostridial disease?

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Per-acute: rapid death

Sub-acute: profuse scour +/- dysentry (often with blood and mucous)

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4
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Give 3 trigger factors for Clostridial disease

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Acidosis (over-feeding cereals or compounds)
Sudden change in diet
Stress

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5
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How do you treat clostridial disease?

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IV/oral fluids
NSAIDs
Analgesics
Charcoal/bismuth 
ie symptomatic treatment
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6
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How do you prevent clostridial disease?

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Lambivac (4 in 1 vaccine)

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7
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Give 2 differential diagnoses for diarrhoea in goats

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PGE

Enterotoxaemia (C. perfringens)

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8
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Give some clinical signs of listeriosis

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Abortion
Encephalitis
Septicaemia and sudden death

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9
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How do you treat listeriosis?

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Antibiotics (potentiated sulphonamides)
NSAIDs
Fluids
Nursing

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10
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What is the source of infection of listeriosis?

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Water

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11
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What kind of virus is Caprine Arthritis Encephalitis (CAE)?

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Lentivirus

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12
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Give some clinical signs of caprine arthritis encephalitis (CAE)

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Swollen joints (carpal joint)
Indurative mastitis (affected quarter is  fibrosed, shrinks back)
Non-specific weight loss
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13
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How do you control CAE (caprine arthritis encephalitis)?

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Test and cull (no vaccine or treatment)

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14
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Give the clinical signs of Johne’s disease

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Poor milk yield
Wasting
Anaemia
(Faeces is unchanged)

Pathology: thickening of ileal walls, large mesenteric lymph nodes

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15
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How do you diagnose Johne’s disease?

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Ziehl-Neelsen staining of faeces

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16
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How do you control Johne’s disease?

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Gudair vaccine

17
Q

What causes caseous lymphadenitis?

A

Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis

18
Q

What is the average milk yield of a goat?

A

800l/lactation

19
Q

What kind of milk secretion occurs in the goat?

A

Apocrine

20
Q

What are the only licensed products for goats?

A 
Lethobarb 20%
Pentobarbitol 
Oxytocin
Coxevac and Gudair
Sterilised water
21
Q

Where is fat normally deposited in a goat?

A

Intra-abdominally

22
Q

If a group of goats is wasting away, what causes would you consider?

A

Bullying/dominance

Nutrition (quality, quantity, clean and fresh, sufficient trough space)

23
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If a single goat is wasting away, what causes would you consider?

A 
Oral (teeth, gums, tongue)
Locomotor disease
Johne's disease
Chronic infections
Endoparasites
Ectoparasites
Tumours
Scrapie
24
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How can you check calcium levels in a goat around parturition?

A

Blood sample

25
Q

Hypomagnesaemia is rare in goats but why may it occur?

A

If fed nothing but grass

26
Q

Give a common cause of respiratory disease in goats

A

Mannheimia haemolytica (pasteurellosis)

27
Q

Give the 3 primary neoplasias of goats

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Intrathoracic thymomas
Mammary neoplasia
Reproductive tract neoplasia

28
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How can a mammary neoplasia lead to a pendulous udder?

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Affects suspensory apparatus

29
Q

How would you identify a goat with chronic laminitis?

A

Characteristic ‘goose-step’ walk
Spend a lot of time on their knees
Hoof is hard and box-shaped

30
Q

Where is psoroptic mange seen in goats?

A

Ears

31
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Where is chorioptic mange seen in goats?

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Lower limbs

32
Q

When is the peak activity of Haemonchus contortus?

A

Aug-Sept

33
Q

Give some infectious causes of diarrhoea in young kids

A

E.coli
Salmonella
Rotavirus
Cryptosporidia

34
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Give some non-infectious causes of diarrhoea in young kids

A

Poor feeding protocol:

  • Milk substitute too dilute
  • Dirty utensils
  • Haphazard feeding pattern
35
Q

What % of goat coccidia are pathogenic?

A

50%

36
Q

How long is the gestation of a goat?

A

150 days

37
Q

What kind of breeders are goats?

A

Seasonally polyoestrus

Sept-Feb

38
Q

What are the clinical signs of hydrometra or false pregnancy?
When is it more prevalent?

A

Abdominal enlargement
Udder development
More prevalent following synchronisation
Associated with persistent CL

39
Q

When are kids disbudded?

How many nerves are blocked?

A

Between 2 and 7 days old

4 nerves blocked

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