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06-23-2019, 08:39 PM
I don't have any links to published studies. However, I spoke at length to the USDA vet who came to do the M.ovi nasal swabs on our goats a couple of years ago and these are both statements that he made. They are also just something I know through anecdotal evidence. I believe anyone who has experience raising both sheep and goats would agree to those statements. The USDA vet said that M.ovi in particular is very species-specific. He was surprised we were testing goats because he did not believe they could be a M.ovi threat to bighorn sheep. I thought this was very interesting.
The reason we don't have science to support these statements is the same reason the government doesn't have science to support their statement that sheep and goats carry the same diseases--there have been very few studies on goats. If they are going to implicate goats in wild sheep die-offs, then they had darn well better have some studies to back up that statement since they are a different species.
The reason we don't have science to support these statements is the same reason the government doesn't have science to support their statement that sheep and goats carry the same diseases--there have been very few studies on goats. If they are going to implicate goats in wild sheep die-offs, then they had darn well better have some studies to back up that statement since they are a different species.