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We have pulled blood on our goats with results being negative for CAE,CL,and Johnes early this year. After shaving goats I noticed one goat who has always seems to cough or at least choke on hay a lot (a yearling). She has one “swollen” spot Underneath her jaw, leading me to think it’s a tooth...

So I have some questions about the CL vaccine and a scenario that I'd like opinions on. So I'm interested in some does that had the CL vaccine before they were introduced to a herd that has CL. Neither of these does had any history of CL. Some members of the herd they got put into got the...

Seven year old Nubian, kidded 2 weeks ago, everything went fine. Healthy babies. Have been milking her everyday, feeding the babes with her milk, she won't nurse them, she has a wonky udder, but she still mothers them. Everything normal, and fine yesterday. Today about 3:00 I went out and she...

Two of my goats have swelling in the chest. Please help. My daughters are very worried. I can't afford a vet at the moment. the black/white one got it all of a sudden yesterday. the cream one always looks like that but from yesterday i feel like it looks more obvious.

Please help!! We have a 7-week old male... Please help!! We have a 7-week old male goat (mother was a Saanen and father a Nigerian Dwarf). The mother would not dilate during labor so her twins had to be delivered by c-section (mom was put down, very sad). The other twin, a female, is totally...

Helloooooo I am new to goat farming, and have two girl goats and one boy. The two girls have suddenly got swollen eyes, so bad that they can't see anything out of them. When you look at the eyes they are milky in colour. Im pretty sure they are in pain and can't see anything. They eyes are...

Yesterday we butchered our oldest goat (close to 12 years old) because she was bloated and in pain. Her temp was normal so we suspect no fever or inflammations. I think she had got to much fodder (we've almost stopped giving them fodder, rather giving them hay) or some such as her intestines...

I was just on WADDL website today and noticed they are now doing pregnancy testing for goats! Pretty excited because I just sent samples in to be tested for diseases and pregnancy! woohoo! here is the info http://waddl.vetmed.wsu.edu/animal-disease-faq/pregnancy-testing-in-ruminants