Buying Healthy Goats and Keeping Them That Way

Abstract Starting a goat herd with healthy animals prevents expense and effort eliminating infectious diseases. Pre-purchase testing and examinations are worth their cost because of the savings realized through fewer animal illnesses, increased production, lower medication costs, and reduced culling. Key management practices such as hoof trimming, vaccinating, body condition scoring, and assessing parasite loads are needed to maintain herd health. Biosecurity practices must become routine to prevent the introduction and/or spread of contagious diseases. Several goat diseases are contagious to humans, so biosecurity measures must address this concern. Excellent record-keeping helps producers monitor health and production trends, document treatments, make breeding vs. culling decisions, and produce food products without illegal residues. Starting with healthy animals, reducing exposure to contagious diseases, providing excellent nutrition, reducing stress, practicing management tasks, selecting for healthy animals, and monitoring animal’s daily health results in a goat herd consisting of animals rarely needing medical intervention. Keywords: Healthy Goats, Herd Health, Prevention of Diseases, Biosecurit

Almost a Partnership : African-Americans, Segregation, and the Young Men\u27s Christian Association

On January 1, 1913, the Colored Men\u27s Department of the Young Men\u27s Christian Association gathered in Washington, D.C., at the Twelfth Street Y . The six African American International Secretaries made a practice of coming together on this holiday, finding in the New Year a quiet time to talk among themselves. Dr. Jesse E. Moorland, the Department\u27s senior secretary, was scheduled to give Remarks, as usual, and the secretaries looked forward to them-particularly this year, which, they knew, held great opportunity for their work. The Twelfth Street Y.M.C.A.-the Colored Branch -itself bore witness to the measured sense of hope abroad in African American communities during the second decade of the twentieth century. The $120,000 building had been dedicated before a large assembly on Thanksgiving Day in 1908 by no less personage than President Theodore Roosevelt himself

The involvement of nurses and midwives in screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful use of alcohol and other psychoactive substances

This report provides details of a review of the literature on the involvement of nurses and midwives in screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful use of alcohol and other psychoactive substances

Audio-Visual Feedback: Student Attainment and Student and Staff Perceptions

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