Goat medicine and surgery Flashcards
What antibiotics are licenced for use in goats?
- Enrofloxacin
- Thiamphenicol spray
What anthelmintic are licenced for use in goats?
- Eprinomectin
What hormones are licenced for use in goats?
- Oxytocin
What vaccines are licenced for use in goats?
- Rabies
- Johne’s
- S aureus
- C burnetii
What are normal TPR in goats?
- Temp = 38,7 - 40.7*C
- HR = adults - 70-120
-kids up to 1m/o = <200
-kids 1-6m/o = <140 - RR = Adults = 15-30
-kids = 20-40
What is normal rumen activity in goats?
- 3-4 contractions in 2 mins
What clostridial disease are of high risk in goats?
- Enterotoxaemia - C. perfringes type D
- Tetanus - C. tetani
What are clinical signs of enterotoxaemia?
- Per-acute = rapid death / found dead
- Sub-acute = profuse diarrhoea +/- dysentery
How is enterotoxaemia treated?
- Fluid therapy (electrolytes)
- NSAID
- Charcoal / bismuth
- TLC
How is enterotoxaemia controlled?
- Minimise stress
- No sudden changes in diet
- Vaccination - Lambivac
What are clinical signs of Caprine arthritis encephalitis?
Tx?
Control?
Unspecific
* Arthritis
* Encephalitis (in young kids)
* Mastitis
* Weight loss
- No Tx, no Vaccine
- Test + Cull
- Avoid pooled milk
How is listeriosis diagnosed?
- Clinical signs - encephalitis, septicaemia, sudden death + abortion
- Post mortem
- Serology
What is treatment of listeriosis?
- Antibiotic - penicillin + oxytet can cross blood brain barrier
- NSAID
- IVFT (alkaline)
What are notifiable diseases of goats in the UK?
- bTB
- Bluetongue
- CAE
- Maedi-visna
- Scrapie
What causes weightloss / poor BCS in goats?
- Lameness
- Bullying
- Nutrition
- Dental disease
- Neoplasia
- CAE
- Johnes
- Scrapie
- bTB
- Endoparasites