How Common Are Milk Stones? Milk stones are relatively rare in goats, especially compared to more well-known udder issues like mastitis or udder edema.

Forgo pharmaceutical drugs and treat goats with herbal remedies. One of our bloggers offers her recipes for everything from deworming to boosting milk production.

In my field work, I interact with a number of aspiring and practising goat farmers. One fallacy they hold, is the fact dairy goats unlike cows are not prone to diseases. That is false because ...

There are some questions worth exploring, find out if there is a BEST way to clean your goat's udder before milking.

Cory Spencer developed an early detection tool after an udder infection caused permanent damage to one of the milking goats on his Cowichan Valley farm.

Ongoing research topics are Finnsheep health and welfare, gastrointestinal nematode parasites of small ruminants and subclinical mastitis in dairy goat farms.

Goat milk is also consumed in some parts of Nigeria, especially Borno State in the northeast. One of the main diseases in sheep and goats caused by the bacterium is mastitis, which affects milk ...

Which parasites are most common in goats? Several parasites commonly affect dairy goats in the UK, including gastrointestinal worms (such as Haemonchus contortus), liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica ...