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Goats (Production (Doe Reproduction (Breeding season --> Autumn (Phases…

- - - - High potential
      - Multipurpose
      - Niche demand (lactose intolerance)
      - Ease of handling
      - Self-sufficiency
      - Less acreage required
      - Form of weed control
    - - Small industry
      - Lack of infrastructure
      - Lack of mainstream demand
      - Fencing requirements (goats open gates)
      - Predator risks
    - - Meat
        
        Aus. world's largest exporter of goat meat (2012-13 --> 31876 tonnes + $145.8 million)
        
        Markets --> US and Taiwan
        
        Live export (2011-12 --> $9.65 million)
        
        Markets --> Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei
      - Dairy
        
        Milked twice/day
      - Fibre (Mohair and Cashmere)
        
        Annual shearing
      - Landscape management
      - Agri-tourism
      - Mustering (Highly profitable)
  - - - Bucks separated prior --> Sudden introduction induces ovulation
      - Phases
        
        Responsive (Buck effect)
        
        Active phase
        
        Quiescent phase
  - - - Pasture and browse
      - Hay
      - Grain
  - - - Perimeter/boundary
      - Internal
      - Heavy use/yards
      - DPI guidelines --> No diagonal strainer posts
      - Able to open gates
    - - Dependent on climate, system, lambing, natural shelter
    - - 7.5 DSE recommended
  - - - Boer
        
        Heavier + higher dressing %
        
        Reach slaughter weight faster
      - Kiko
      - Pygmy
    - - Sanaan (29%)
      - Toggenburg (16%)
      - Anglo Nubian (35%)
    - - Angora
      - Cashmere
      - Pygora
      - Cashgora
- - - - Transmission
        
        Infected colostrum
      - Symptoms
        
        Udder hardening
        
        Chronic interstitial pneumonia
        
        Chronic weight loss
        
        Rear limb paresis
      - Prevalent worldwide in dairy goats
      - Treatment
        
        Test and removal
        
        No treatment/vaccine
    - - Developing drug resistance
      - Management practices important
      - FAMACHA --> Assess barber pole worm infection
    - - Symptoms
        
        Metabolic failure
        
        Heavily pregnant does lying down and defecating
      - Cause
        
        Fat does receiving inadequate nutrition activate fat stores --> Produces toxic levels of ketones --> Cause neurological signs
      - Prevention
        
        Avoid fattening during pregnancy
        
        Increase nutrition during last 6 weeks of gestation (80% of foetal growth
        
        Ensure exercise for food and water
    - - Symptoms
        
        Abscess formation near major peripheral lymph nodes
      - Causes
        
        Skin wounds
      - Prevention
        
        Actively draining lesions