Understanding and researching lameness requires accurate measurement of lameness status. In addition to its value for research, measuring the number of lame goats on a farm is useful for identifying...
Underpinning all other areas of goat keeping within the UK are the true pedigree herds, and the British Goat Society and its various breed societies hold the pedigree and stud books and sell pedigree...
A knowledge of the apparent lack of age dependent resistance to nematode parasites in goats is key to investigating weight loss and diarrhoea in goats of all ages in which clinical parasitic...
In cattle digit amputation is indicated for septic pedal arthritis (infection of the distal interphalangeal joint) (Pejsa et al, 1998; Desrochers et al, 2008), pedal osteitis (infection of P3), toe...
The annual incidence of clinical mastitis in dairy sheep and goats is estimated to be around 5% (Contreras et al, 2007). This is much lower than the 13–40% incidence of dairy cattle (Jamali et al,...
Lentivirus is a genus of retroviruses in the family Retroviridae, that causes a group of slowly developing insidious conditions such as CAE and maedi visna (MV) of sheep, the two diseases often...