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The Best of Ruminations
2001-2007
Goat Health Care
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Table of Contents

  1. Understanding Your Goat
    • Troubleshooting Goat Health Problems
    • Goat Health Record
    • The Ruminant Stomach
    • Goat Teeth
    • Goat Sociology
  2. Routine Care
    • Fencing and Shelter
    • Feeding
    • The Stanchion
    • Rotational Grazing
    • The Ideal Pasture
    • Supplements
    • Hoof Trimming
    • FAMACHA
    • Creating "Super Worms"
    • Parasite Control
    • Giving Injections
    • Drawing Blood
    • Vaccinations
    • Cold Weather Goat Care
  3. Breeding, Pregnancy and Kidding
    • Pre-breeding
    • Inbreeding—Good or Bad?
    • Why AI?
    • Hypocalcemia: How to Recognize, Treat and Prevent It
    • Ketosis: What Is It and How Does It Happen?
    • Abortion in Goats of North America
    • How to "Read" Ligaments
    • Kidding for Beginners
    • A Difficult Kidding
    • Other Kid Positions
    • A Difficult Kidding: Part II
    • Acquired Birth Defects in Kids
  4. Kid Care
    • Post-Kidding
    • Tube Feeding a Weak Kid
    • Floppy Kid Syndrome
    • Correcting Hyperflexed Legs in a Newborn Kid
    • Navel Ill
    • Feeding Kids
    • Why Disbud?
    • Disbudding—A Learn-as-you-go Adventure
    • Castrating Your Buckling
    • Tattooing and Microchipping
    • A Word About Milk Goiter
    • Coccidiosis
  5. Health Issues
    • Bloat
    • Brucellosis
    • Caprine Arthritis Encephalitis Virus (CAEV)
    • Caseous Lymphadenitis (CLA)
    • Caprine Chlamydiosis
    • Copper Deficiency in Dairy Goats
    • Tyzzer’s Disease and Copper Deficiency
    • Coughing Caprines
    • Enterotoxemia
    • Foot Rot
    • Johne’s Disease
    • Those Pesky Lice!
    • Listeriosis
    • Mastitis
    • Gastrointestinal Parasites
    • Pinkeye
    • Pneumonia
    • Polioencephalomalacia (Goat Polio)
    • Poisoning
    • Prussic Acid Poisoning
    • Q Fever
    • Rabies
    • Ringworm
    • Scrapie
    • Soremouth
    • Sunburn
    • Tetanus
    • Preventing Urinary Calculi
  6. Medications
    • Injectable Antibiotics
    • Injectable Vitamins and Minerals
    • Miscellaneous Injectables
    • IV/SQ Solutions
    • Oral Antibiotics/Antibacterials…
    • Miscellaneous Oral Products
    • Oral Pain and Anti-inflammatory Medications
    • Other Miscellaneous Products
    • Mastitis Detection and Treatment
    • Drugs for Intramammary Use
    • Anthelmintics (Dewormers)
    • Anticoccidial Products
    • Natural Care and Home Remedies
    • Home Remedies
    • Herbal Remedies
    • Fighting Flies in the Goat Barn
    • Alternatives: Herbal Remedies
    • Alternatives: Teeth
    • Alternatives: Breeding
    • Alternatives: Pre-kidding
    • Alternatives: Parasites
    • Goat Massage 101
  7. Letting Go
    • Euthanasia
    • Disposal of the Body
    • Bereavement
  8. Resources
  9. Index



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