C.A.E. Postive goats at Diamond M Whitetail Ranch, Inez, Texas

Alice In TX/MO · #21 02/21/11, 03:06 PM

The return and refund took place, and we heard that the herd at the whitetail ranch is going to be tested.

luvzmybabz · #22 02/21/11, 05:30 PM

My fear of the 6 month period is selling a bottle baby that is fed milk from a dirty source and then I am out the money. I had a bottle baby that I had purchased cheaply for a wether friend he was by himself in isolation and I was feeding him 1/2 cow 1/2 goat from a supposedly clean herd that I had seen " the test results for". However just about 6 weeks into buying her milk which I knew she pooled she had a positive goat listed on craigslist for sale cheap but that is when I put the baby down. There was no way he had not drank her tainted milk, come to find out she kept 2 sets of test results that year one was 6 months previous one was within a month of me seeing them but I was shown the 6 months previous set and she had known prior to seeling me the milk, which we had talked about raw or pasteurized. So if it can happen when you are doing the right thing how is a seller to know if they are at fault or the buyer. PS I have let a number of people know about her milk these were people that I know had purchased milk from her herd sometimes through the auction I worked at, had not planned to but when I contacted her about this she was very hateful willing to show me her results so I went to her farm and shoes me results for her Nubians but refused to show me the most recent on the amounts go figure and I knew she had it as she had shown to a close breeder for another sale.

Jcran · #23 02/21/11, 05:36 PM

We test twice a year right now; I worry far more about CL than CAE since CL can live in the soil for years and years. However, I do not want CAE positive animals on our place. Our boer goats have always been negative for both. We are freshening our first dairy animals in the next couple weeks and just got our CAE/ CL tests back a couple days ago on them since they were purchased from outside sources...These are from herds who say they test, but I sure didn't see the test papers on three out of the four places we bought. The tests all came back negative, but I will still heat treat and pastuerize since I've read that the CAE can be negative for a long time, then pop up positive. Does anyone out there have any experience with that happening?

Creamers · #24 02/21/11, 06:07 PM

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I've read that the CAE can be negative for a long time, then pop up positive. Does anyone out there have any experience with that happening?

It has not happened to me, but It has happened to people I trust and know are honest with 30 plus years experience, in some cases.

Freak me totally out.