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11-10-2014, 11:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-10-2014, 11:42 PM by Dave-Trinity-Farms.)
Goat disease topics are always a strong subject for me. So ill take as much guilt as needed on the talking down to part but I do like to leave the door open for others to make their own choices. And as must of us know or will learn to know, its a two sided coin to just about everything goat related. From feed to worming to vaccines. Long time goat people find what works for them and get pretty defensive when its suggested they are not doing it right. Its not cause they are not open to other methods but most goat owners are fiercely passionate about their goats and to say they are doing it wrong is like saying they are not caring for their goats right and thats just not acceptable 
For me I went from never having livestock to being thrown into a commercial sized dairy at just about the time CAE and CL were coming to light and the herd was heavily infected. Spend a decade of your life fighting CAE and CL on well over a thousand goats and I can guarantee you will have a rock solid, no holes prevention program in place. I can factually testify to what works and what doesnt and to whats safe and whats not. So when I hear someone say its ok to keep positive and negative animals together just because it worked for them, I think of the newer people who dont know better who will read it and think its ok to follow suit. So I do get a little more vocal when taking the other side of the coin. For that I do apologize. But knowing how difficult it is to deal with these disease and how much people love their goats, I will always preach that people error on the side of caution and to ignore more dangerous methods that have worked for others.
San, like I said. I am not saying your methods are stupid or that they didnt work for you. But you are putting other peoples animals at greater risk by suggesting your methods work the same as or better then what is basic prevention knowledge. Suggesting that others are hysterical in there beliefs by following that basic knowledge is pretty much talking down to them. The math is simple. Keep positive animals in with negative animals and they will be at risk regardless of what you do. Separate positive animals form negative animals and you completely take that risk away. There is nothing else that needs to be said. And as for AIDS, I know more then most about that. My brother died of it. I can guarantee if you had a close family member died of it, you wouldnt be so quick to bring up the hysteria card I can tell you that for sure.
For me I went from never having livestock to being thrown into a commercial sized dairy at just about the time CAE and CL were coming to light and the herd was heavily infected. Spend a decade of your life fighting CAE and CL on well over a thousand goats and I can guarantee you will have a rock solid, no holes prevention program in place. I can factually testify to what works and what doesnt and to whats safe and whats not. So when I hear someone say its ok to keep positive and negative animals together just because it worked for them, I think of the newer people who dont know better who will read it and think its ok to follow suit. So I do get a little more vocal when taking the other side of the coin. For that I do apologize. But knowing how difficult it is to deal with these disease and how much people love their goats, I will always preach that people error on the side of caution and to ignore more dangerous methods that have worked for others.
San, like I said. I am not saying your methods are stupid or that they didnt work for you. But you are putting other peoples animals at greater risk by suggesting your methods work the same as or better then what is basic prevention knowledge. Suggesting that others are hysterical in there beliefs by following that basic knowledge is pretty much talking down to them. The math is simple. Keep positive animals in with negative animals and they will be at risk regardless of what you do. Separate positive animals form negative animals and you completely take that risk away. There is nothing else that needs to be said. And as for AIDS, I know more then most about that. My brother died of it. I can guarantee if you had a close family member died of it, you wouldnt be so quick to bring up the hysteria card I can tell you that for sure.