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Miscellaneous diseases

The diseases on this page do not fit into any general categories. They are listed alphabetically: abscesses, cold stress, dental disease, eye diseases, heat stress, hernias, rectal prolapse, and spider lamb syndrome.

Abscesses

Abscesses - Onion Creek Ranch
Abscesses: should you worry? - Myotonic Goat Registry
Caseous lymphadenitis -- go to Bacterial disease page
[PDF] Foot abscess in sheep - NSW, Australia

Cold stress

[WORD] Alpacas and hypothermia (cold stress) - Alpacas VicWest
Avoiding weather-induced deaths of goats - Australia Cashmere Goat Assoc.
[PDF] Cold stress as it affects animal prodution - J Anim Sci
[PDF] Cold stress in lambs - National CVM Conservancy
Cold weather goat care - Dairy Goat Journal
Hypothermia -- go to Lamb and Kid Disease Page
[PDF] Ruminant cold stress: effect on production - J Anim Sci
Spray-on coat leaves shorn sheep happy come rain or shine - The Guardian
Understanding cold stress in livestock - Southern States
Winter goat management - BoerGoats.com

Dental disease

Dental diseases in sheep - NADIS UK
[PDF] Dental problems of water buffaloes, feedlot cattle, and goats...
Fluorosis in sheep - Queensland, Australia
[PDF] Studies on management of dental root abscesses ... domestic animals
Teeth and teeth problems - LifeStyle Block NZ
[PDF] Tooth problems in sheep - NADIS UK

Eye diseases

Entropion (inverted eyelid) -- go to lamb and kid diseases
[PDF] Eye diseases in sheep - NADIS UK
Flickr™ group: eye problems
Pinkeye -- go to Bacterial disease page

Heat stress

Avoiding heat and cold stress in transported sheep- Ontario, Canada
Breaching heat stress comfort zones - Kinne's Mini's
Caring for animals during extreme heat - Victoria, Australia | PDF
Heat and sheep - Lavender Fleece
Heat stress - National Goat Handbook
[PDF] Heat stress - Pipestone Vet Clinic
Heat stress and sheep - Sheep! Magazine
Heat stress in sheep and goats
[PDF] Heat stress, fairs ... animal considerations - SDSU
Heat stress goats - Goat-link.com
[PDF] Heat stress in ruminants - Organic Ag Center of Canada
Managing heat stress to minimize losses - EBLEX
[PDF] Physiological traits as affected by heat stress in sheep: a review
[PDF] Water, heat stress, and drought - ATTRA

Hernias

[PDF] Congenital umbilical defect in kid with intestinal evisceration
Learning about umbilical hernias - Sheep! Magazine
Flickr™ image: Scrotal hernia (congenital)
Flickr™ image: Scrotal hernia
[PDF] Surgical diseases of the neonate - IVIS
[PDF] Surgical treatment for different forms of hernias in sheep and goats

Rectal prolapse

Barn cough - rectal prolapse - Daneke Club Lambs
[PDF] Causes, prevention, and treatment of rectal prolapse in sheep | HTML
[PDF, M.S. thesis] The effects of dock length ... rectal prolapse in lambs
[PDF] Length of tail dock and incidence of rectal prolapse in lambs
[PDF] Rectal and vaginal prolapse in sheep - Ohio State University
Rectal prolapse - Pipestone Vet Clinic
Rectal prolapse: a complex problem with many . . .
Rectal prolapse and tail docking articles - Daneke Club Lambs
[PDF] Rectal prolapse in lambs - University of Tennessee
Vaginal and uterine prolapses -- go to Reproductive Problems Page

Spider lamb syndrome

[PDF] Identifying sheep genetically free of spider lamb syndrome - SDSU
Spider lamb disease (hereditary chondrodysplasia) - Purdue class project
Spider lamb syndrome - Daneke Club Lambs
[Image] Spider lamb syndrome - Pipestone Vet Clinic
Spider lamb syndrome - Purdue Univ. class project
[PDF] Scrapie and spider lamb syndrome - Emsoff Livestock Company
[PDF] Spider syndrome - Oklahoma State University
[PDF] The test for spider lamb syndrome gene in sheep - NDSU

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The Maryland Small Ruminant Page [sheepandgoat.com] is a privately-owned web site. It was created in 1998 as an information portal for sheep and goat producers and anyone else interested in small ruminant production. The web site includes original documents and images as well as a comprehensive list of links pertaining to small ruminants and related topics. The web site was developed and is solely maintained by Susan Schoenian. Susan is an Extension Sheep & Goat Specialist at the University of Maryland's Western Maryland Research & Education Center in Keedsyville, Maryland. She has been with University of Maryland Extension since 1988. Susan holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Animal Science from Virginia Tech and Montana State University, respectively. She raises registered and commercial Katahdin sheep on her small farm called The Baalands in Clear Spring, Maryland. Please direct all questions, comments, or suggestions to Susan at sschoen@umd.edu.

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Last updated 18-Jun-2011 by Susan Schoenian.