Positive Test

This is our first year of testing out goats.  We bought a Lamancha goat last June at a local animal swap meet.  The guy told me she was negative for everything and that he tests.  I took his word for it. grrr  I just got all the test results back, and she tested positive for Casceous @1:128 and she tested positive for SRLV.  I have been super careful about buying from breeders who test and now I am seriously regretting getting her.  She kidded with twin doelings a little over a week ago.  I am dam raising, what does this mean for the babies.  Everyone else tested negative.  Should I give everyone a booster shot?  Should I retest everyone in a few months?   I am so disappointed, what does this mean for my herd?  Help please!!!

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  • I guess I was thinking more of a painter's plastic tarp... the clear ones... you could bleach it once you were done and use it for something else another day. I don't think I'd want to burn it, being plastic and all... but it WOULD... it would just be melty.

  • Yea, that could be a little hard. LOL! But I think I would just make it burn anyway! LOL! Maybe some gas would make it! I'd burn up something anyway! Probably me!

  • Burn?  Do remember, the tarp will not burn so you must make arrangements to have bag large enough to hold it after it is folded back on itself multiple times to take it to the dump.

  • That is a great idea! I would do that and then I would burn it all. Burning is what I have always read about CL. The tarp would be perfect to use!

  • Another thing you might want to do, is do all your butchering/processing on a tarp that you can throw out. That way, no blood, etc. gets into the ground.

  • I think that the point is, JUST in case it would be best done well out of the way in a location that you could burn everything in when done. Make sure all cats, dogs or other lose animals are confined until everything is cleaned up and burned. You would not want them to grab up something and drag the germs around the property! Or even step in the germs with theirfeet and relocate them. Don't forget about your feet.

  • Plus I do believe that CAE can be transferred blood to blood contact, so you would want to be sure you didn't have CAE + blood where your other goats could come into contact with it either.
     
    Juliana Goodwin said:

    This is really just speculation...but if she tested positive for CL, she could have internal abscesses.  If you were to open one while butchering the animal, I believe that bacteria contaminates the surroundings for a long time.  I would be inclined not to to it on your farm, or at least on a far corner of the farm that you can keep quaratined in case you opened an abscess.

  • This is really just speculation...but if she tested positive for CL, she could have internal abscesses.  If you were to open one while butchering the animal, I believe that bacteria contaminates the surroundings for a long time.  I would be inclined not to to it on your farm, or at least on a far corner of the farm that you can keep quaratined in case you opened an abscess.

  • Sorry I wasn't super clear on what I was asking.  We've butchered goats before on our property in the past.  I was curious if it is safe since she tested positive for these diseases?  Thanks everyone.

  • Margaret, I plan to butcher then, because the meat will be "milk fed" for the most part, and the kids will be small enough to put in the crock pot. Also, because I'm aiming for Cabrito, which traditionally is even younger, but with Nigerians, I'm letting them get a little bigger. I may change my mind after our first round, but for now, that's my plan.

    Janel, we butchered our first on our property.  I don't know where you would check to see if there are any laws regarding this in your state... The main thing I can think of here, would be that if I lived in town, discharging a gun in city limits isn't legal.

    Rachel, I am curious as to why you are going to slaughter 3 month olds. Is that just because you like it or because they are bucklings that you don't want to castrate and don't want to GET to the does or what? It just seems like a waste to me, when they are so small and given another 3 or 4 months would yield twice as much meat.

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