I'd be in favor of depopulating depending on if survivors become carriers-typhoid mary's. A lot of poultry diseases go that way. IDK if they are willing to talk about if bird flu does.
Nothing. All I know for sure is that you breed goats that haven't had it after the mosquitoes are gone-so very late in the year. If they contract it during pregnancy it causes fetal deformation and if early enough death. From what I understand it deforms bucks' swimmers. Then everybody has immunity to it for "several years". I almost wonder if I brought it in with my little white buck since he had little fertility for a 2 year old buck and then mosquitoes spread it to the does. And the doe that came with him kidded normally with a normal litter size and normal kids. We also had few buck kids, VERY unusual for us. Male embryos are supposedly more fragile in general.
I think so, but its fairly new here after previously being isolated out west, so I'm going to have to ask about pricing. It may not make sense for me to screen all the does.
Yes, so having the disease should be like a vaccine. The questions are, is it Cache Valley, and did the whole herd get exposed? If they potentially all had it the next year a herd should be able to continue as normal and just freshen yearlings late.
