Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
common practices in a herd health program that is devel-
oped to fi t the needs of the farm. Information provided in
the chapter can assist educators and the students in acquir-
ing knowledge on preferred production practices for goats.
Also these practices can assist experienced and inexperi-
enced producers in making sound decisions in their man-
agement practices that will result in healthy goats and
production of residue-free and unadulterated meat and
milk products for human consumption.
Publication, pp. 20 . http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/ae937e/
ae937e00.htm. Retrieved December 15, 2008.
FAO . 2005b . Goat numbers . http://faostat.fao.org . Retrieved
December 15, 2008.
Grant , K. 2001 . Predatory control . Proceedings of the 16th
Annual Goat Field Day. Langston University.
Gundlock ,
D.J.
Elastrator
dehorning
of
goats.
www.
greatgoats.com/articles/dehorning_text.html .
Retrieved
December 15, 2008.
Hooper , R.N. 1998 . General surgical techniques for small
ruminants . Proceedings Western Veterinary Conference.
Las Vegas .
Pugh , B. 2008 . Predator Control . Oklahoma Basic Meat Goat
Manual . Oklahoma State University , Stillwater, OK .
Pugh , D.G. 2002 . Disbudding and dehorning . Sheep and Goat
Medicine .
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Illustrations by Dr. Zeke Proctor, DVM. Dr. Proctor gradu-
ated from Oklahoma State University in 2009 and is cur-
rently an Associate Veterinarian in a mixed practice at
Siloam Springs, Arkansas.
Saunders
Publisher ,
Philadelphia,
PA ,
Pp.
221 - 222 .
Sahlu , T. , L.J. Dawson , T.A. Gipson , S.P. Hart , R.C. Merkel ,
R. Puchala , Z. Wang , S. Zeng , and A.L. Goetsch . 2009 .
ASAS Centennial Paper: Impact of Animal Science
Research on U.S. Goat Production and Predictions of the
Future . J. Anim. Sci. 87 : 400 - 418 .
Smith , M.C. and D.M. Sherman . 1994 . Goat Medicine .
Dehorning and Descenting. Lea and Febiger, Malvern, PA,
pp. 519 - 525 .
Solaiman , S.G. 2007 . Simply Meat Goats . Tuskegee University
Publishing. Publication No. 115 - 1006 .
Swize , R. 2007 . Meat goat management . Meat Goat Production
Handbook . Gipson , T.A. , R.C. Merkel , K. Williams , and T.
Sahlu , Eds. Pp. 25 - 38 , AIGR : Langston University .
USDA . 2005 . Sheep and goat predator loss . National
Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS), Washington DC.
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu .
REFERENCES
Dawson , L.J. 2005 . Administration of injectable drugs and
vaccines in goats. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Goat
Field Day. American Institute of Goat Research at Langston
University .
Dawson , L.J. , J. Allen , and B. Alcott . 2007a . Meat goat herd
health—Procedures and prevention. Meat Goat Production
Handbook,
edited
by
Gipson ,
T.A. ,
R.C.
Merkel ,
K .
Williams ,
and
T.
Sahlu .
Pp.
51 - 63 ,
AIGR :
Langston
University .
Dawson , L.J. , J. Allen , and B. Alcott . 2007b . Meat goat herd
health—Procedures and prevention. Proceedings of the
22nd Annual Goat Field Day. Langston University.
FAO . 2005a . Selected indicators of food and agriculture
development
in Asia — Pacifi c
region
1994 - 2004 .
RAP
