Disease A-Z for Goats
Click on the health issues affecting your goats and find out more.
When you have finished, why not try the clinical quiz at the end of the bulletin and receive a Goat Health Certificate from NADIS.
Plan for Health and ask your vet for a veterinary health plan. Disease prevention is most effective as part of an active veterinary health plan.
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Goat Health 1 - The Healthy Goat
Goats are ruminants like sheep and cattle, and as such share many of the health problems common to ruminants in the UK. One factor sets them apart from other ruminants however in that they have evolved as BROWSING and not GRAZING animals.
Goat Health 2 – Maintaining Health & Fitness
In this bulletin, we’re going to consider some of the fundamental principles to follow that should help to keep your goats fit and healthy – i.e. herd health preventative measures. We’ll cover these under a series of headings: Biosecurity, Quarantine, Environmental management, Nutrition, and Prophylaxis.
Goat Health 3 - Endoparasites
Nematodes are by far the most important endoparasites of the goat, the majority of which live in the stomach and gut , but also include lungworms that complete their life cycle in the respiratory tract. . A number of species are shared with cattle and sheep (important to bear in mind when devising a worm control programme if you have shared grazing).
Goat Health 4 - Responsible Goat Keeping
Receive Your Goats Health Certificate
Finish reading a bulletin and take the clinical quiz at the end to receive a NADIS certificate and claim DairyPro points.