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Goats
Goats
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Veterinary Medicine
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08/15/2011

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Goat's tails are
Definition
short and held pointed upwards
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Goats have a blind spot where
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rear
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Goat flocking instinct
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not as strong as sheep
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Goats display aggression by
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head butting
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Kid's stomachs are
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monogastric
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Hemaphrodites occur most often in what animal
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goats
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Goat estrus cycle lasts
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21 days
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Goat signs of heat include
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flagging,
increased vocalization
decreased appetite & milk production
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Kidding stage 1 lasts
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up to 12 hrs
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Kidding stage 2 lasts
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usually w in 2 hrs, when kid is born
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Kidding stage 3 lasts
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4 hours
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After kidding goats often
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consume the placenta
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Goat pg can be detected as early as
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18 days via rectal ultrasound
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In goats kidding these are uncommon
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dystocia
retained fetal membranes
vaginal and uterin prolapse
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Effective restraint in goats
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corner goat against a wall or back it into a corner,
straddling,
lateral recumbancy,
stand alongside goat and cradle its head,
lifting a goat's leg
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This is done in sheep but not goats to restrain
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setting up
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Kids are restrained like
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lambs
usually held on restrainers lap
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Goat temperature
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101.5-104
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Goat HR
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70-90
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Goat RR
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15-30
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Goat feces is
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pelleted, like sheep
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Intact mature male
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Billy/Buck
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Doe
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female goat
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Brood Doe
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Breeding Doe
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Baby male
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Buckling
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Baby female
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Doeling
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Goat meat
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chevon
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grafting
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fostering an orphaned/rejected kid onto a doe that is not the biological mother
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baby goat either sex
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kid
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act of giving birth
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kidding
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dark blood discharge a doe passes for several weeks after kidding
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lochia
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using goats to clear an area of brush or weeds (used to help control aggressive varieties of non-native plant species)
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mitigation
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mother goat
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nanny
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goat 1 yr of age
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yearling
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feral goats are referred to as
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spanish or brush goats
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Tennessee Fainting Goat aka
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myotonic,
wooden leg,
Tennessee meat goat
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Compared to other goats TFGs are not
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good climbers or jumpers
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Cashmeres, compared to other goats are not
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jumpers
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Breed most often used for commercial milking (dairy breed)
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French Alpine
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Mix of nubian does & pygmy buck, dual purpose
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Kinder
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Lacks an outer ear flap
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LaMancha
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Two types of LaMancha ears
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Gopher
Elf
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Gopher ear is
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very small, shriveled, triangular, can exceed 1 inch
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Elf ear
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can be up to 2 inches long,
tip must turn either up or down
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Nubian known for
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large pendulous ears,
roman nose,
hot climate,
long breeding season,
high butterfat,
dairy or meat
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Pygmy originally known as
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Cmeroon Dwarf Goat
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San Clemente purpose
Definition
meat
striped face, black stripe
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Toggenburg purpose
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dairy, oldest breed of dairy,but also meat,
cooler climate
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