my neighbor just bought about twenty goats and has them just about right beside my one deer pen will this matter at all. if it does matter what vaccines should i use? i know you shouldnt have deer around sheep without but certain vaccines but never heard anything about goats
goats around deer?
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my goats are sharing a fence with my deer and i know of uthers that have used deer pens as a goat pen then put deer back in with out any trouble you should be fine
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My neighbor has sheep about 200 feet from my deer pen, there is a low laying area inbetween and the predominant wind blows past me and toward the sheep area. Do I need to worry about anything?
thanks for all your help everyone. and to answer you question smoking_44 they should be fine but sheep can get blue tongue and that can be spread to deer also with your distance i would imagine you would be fine but i would def talk to your vet about it maybe vaccine them better safe then sorry.
With the way the market is and the cost of feed, I'm thinking of making a "goat plunge" without checking...I've sold everything in-state or easily with health papers so far, and by the time I get done trimming the herd, it might not matter that much anyway.
I don't know how easily white tail get this, but sheep have been known to carry MCF, with out signs - though there is a live test for it. MN zoo lost several reindeer to the disease when they were housed in their "Petting Farm" area near sheep.
We have raised goats and had them close to our deer pens, and never had any deer related problems.
Did know a vet out in NY that lost some red deer to MCF, which came from his sheep.
We have raised goats and had them close to our deer pens, and never had any deer related problems.
Did know a vet out in NY that lost some red deer to MCF, which came from his sheep.
Smoking_44 said:
I would, of there is MCF in sheep in your area,& if MCF is a threat to whitetail.
MCF does not go clinical in sheep so no one with them worries about it.
It is passed on to deer by blood feeding insects which have fed on the sheep.
I have found in windy,humid/wet weather 2klms is not enough to stop animals dieing if the wind is blowing in the direction from the maggot taxies.
Several years ago I made a big effort to reduce the wild dogs on my place (the neighbourly thing to do,right?).Some dogs had made a speciality of chatching the sheep & only eating the liver,these took several days to die,& some dogs had killed several hundred this way.After the dogs were thined out several of my neighbours got back into sheep instead of cattle.Didn't I learn about MCF the hard way.Now unless the dogs are a real threat to my deer,or they are a lost pig dog ,we have a truce.Funny how I'm seeing fewer maggot taxi's about now even though the price of lamb is up,& I haven't had a case of MCF even after 12 months of good rain.
Sheep are banned in the NT of Aust,Indonesia & many countries in the Pacific because they host so many viruses,& are a major threat to agriculture & wildlife.
Deer are a dead end host & no threat.
Fallow deer are almost resistent to MCF,red deer ok, but not completly resistent,hopefully whitetail are to.It's deadly to Asiatic species.
Cheers Sharkey
Honestly Sharkey... Is there something that you DO NOT KNOW???? Please please please post more often. You were missing from H&W for a while.
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