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Goat Care and Management
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Informative brochure for preventing Johne's introduction to your herd.
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Online textbook with awesome information and references. Great reference and learning tool!
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Journal Dairy Science Vol 101, No 4. 2018.
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Presentation by Dr. Jeremy Schefer, head of the diagnostic lab at the Univ. of MN
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Database for UCDavis VGL DNA ID case numbers
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Kidding Resources
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Linda Carlson has drawn some awesome representations of various ways kids may present, both normal and those needing repositioning. Great reference!
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Copper Toxicosis in Goats
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Cornish et al, JAVMA Vol 231, No 4 (2007)
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Evans, et al. J Vet Diag Invest Vol 21 (2009)
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Lisa H Williamson DVM, MS, Diplomate ACVIM (2013)
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Robert J. Van Saun, DVM, MS, PhD, DACT, DACVN Western Veterinary Conference presentation (2016)
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Large Animal Internal Medicine, 5th Ed. B.P. Smith (2015)
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Neville F. Suttle. American Society for Nutrition. Adv. Nutr. 3: 666-674, 2012.
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Nice study showing some protection against copper accumulation with antagonist cocktail of Zn, Mo and S. Also formulation for feed used for depletion of liver copper stores.
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Please help us complete testing and follow up in order to publicize for the benefit of all! Thanks!!!
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Need to decrease high liver copper stores? Consider gypsum rather than molybdate/thiosulfate.
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Water, Hay, Concentrate, & Mineral Analysis
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Dairy Goat Breeding
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Informative article by Alice G. Hall
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Performance Programs and Selection
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Making sense of the alphabet soup of a name **note: the butterfat requirement for ADGA star qualification was raised effective 2023**
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Presentation prepared by Trina Voss to help getting started with milk testing
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It needn't be as intimidating as it first appears to be!
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You Tube video of a presentation by Lisa Shepard on enrolling in ADGA production testing
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Other topics of my own interest
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A True Story of Survival and Heros in the Life of a Goat
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Genetic Evaluations for Dairy Goats
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description of what data is included in genetic evaluations, not updated since Nigerian Dwarves were included
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Genetic Evaluation of Yield and Type Traits of Dairy Goats in the United States by Wiggans & Hubbard
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Breed differences over time and heritability estimates for production and reproduction traits of dairy goats in the United States
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The development of genomics applied to dairy breeding 2014
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Nigerian Dwarf Height Standard
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Joanne Karohl of Dragonfly Farm discusses issue with current buck standard
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ADGA Genetics Resources
ADGA Genetics by Gene Dershewitz-
useful resource for researching ADGA pedigreed goats and performance
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database of αs1 casein alleles maintained by Gene Dershewitz
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