Nothing ever seems to work out...

Kazahleenah · #21 12/25/07, 04:20 PM

http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/sho...d.php?t=222539

Will have milking does in the spring... worth checking out anyway

susanne · #22 12/25/07, 04:32 PM

your best bet would be to raise your own healthy stock. this gives you more guarantee for healthy stock and nobody else to blame.
if somebody comes to my place and want to have does kept in quarantine until results are back, i would charge boarding fee, not returnable. i think you ask a little bit too much. buy some goats from herds that are testing regularly with negative results. be willing to pay the premium for such animals, put them in quarantine, and test them.

Trey · #23 12/25/07, 06:55 PM

mygoats, did you ever ask the gal with the borderline cl if the goats had been vaccinated for it?

**mygoat** · #24 12/25/07, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by susanne

your best bet would be to raise your own healthy stock. this gives you more guarantee for healthy stock and nobody else to blame.
if somebody comes to my place and want to have does kept in quarantine until results are back, i would charge boarding fee, not returnable. i think you ask a little bit too much. buy some goats from herds that are testing regularly with negative results. be willing to pay the premium for such animals, put them in quarantine, and test them.

I'm trying to raise my own stock, lol. Remember that last year was my first year with dairies, though, so I don't have much of a beginning yet. As for her keeping them separate, she was willing to do so when she heard I was concerned with CAE and hesitant to buy due to the rest of her herd not being tested. I'm looking for herds that regularly test, they are surprisingly few and far between... and it's less often that they have any stock for sale. I am willing to pay good money for the animals... I just can't FIND any!!

**mygoat** · #25 12/25/07, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Trey

mygoats, did you ever ask the gal with the borderline cl if the goats had been vaccinated for it?

She doesn't vaccinate for it as far as I know... However, if she did, both should have came back positive. This is something I'll ask her whenever she emails me back, which will probably be after the holiday.

HazyDay · #26 12/26/07, 08:50 AM

Dona, sounds like you may want to look into some Canadian stock?? I would check with your border, but last I heard was breeding stock was coming in and out. Here is the Alpine breeders in ONT. http://www.clrc.ca/cgi-bin/list.cgi?...province=ON%2C

**mygoat** · #27 12/26/07, 11:07 AM

Ok, I just talked to PAVL and they said that she did come up borderline. However, with the sample being 2 weeks old at testing (sent it at a week old, and even though I payed for priority, it didn't get there for a WEEK) and among other things, interference could and probably did cause a borderline. And, with three weeks between testings she should show her status correctly by now.

The owner is pretty meticulous when it comes to CL and she has only ever had one goat with abscesses... a borrowed buck was returned to her after leasing it for a breeding season with abscesses... it was separated and removed IMMEDIATELY.

So, PAVL is letting me send another sample in for that doe for free. Hopefully it comes back negative, as I believe it will.

I did offer to pay her a boarding fee. She's going through a lot of trouble for me, and I realize this. Mind you, she won't even accept a deposit on these does, which I was willing to put down on them when I first came and saw them. If I go back to draw the blood again, I'll probably insist this time to lay down a deposit on them, lol.