Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

We won't be getting goats until this lambing season is finished but they will not be kept together. The current sheep pen is better suited to a couple of goats and it will become the goat pen along with a good bit of woods after the sheep get moved to the big pasture. We were able to do a decent infrastructure for the ewes in a short time due to the smaller size. Plus at the time we arranged to get them we did not have an LGD and didn't expect to have one so the pen is really secure. This small pen makes it easier to keep track of what Maisy is up to and better able to monitor the sheep.

 

[Southern by choice]

Are the sheep tested for OPP, CL, Johnes?

Are the goats you are getting tested for CAE,CL, Johnes?

 

[Mike CHS]

Sheep are all tested and the goats will be.

 

[Southern by choice]

Sheep are all tested and the goats will be.

Good to hear. I don't know of anyone testing commercial flocks of sheep and extremely rare for sheep people to test for OPP.

I talk with many sheep people and they think scrapie program is what "tested" means. One farm I know lost all their first sheep to Scrapie. Another ended up having CAE and OPP... they had sheep and goats together.

 

[NH homesteader]

Sorry to take this off topic a bit but what is OPP?

 

[Southern by choice]

It is a lentivirus... both CAE and OPP are in the lentivirus family

http://www.oppsociety.org/About_OPP.html

https://ahdc.vet.cornell.edu/docs/OvineProgressivePneumonia.pdf

 

[NH homesteader]

So... A shep positive for this could give your goats CAE? I have been considering adding sheep but my goats are more important to me. Going to go check those out, thanks!

 

[Goat Whisperer]

So... A shep positive for this could give your goats CAE? I have been considering adding sheep but my goats are more important to me. Going to go check those out, thanks!

Yes, that is my understanding.

 

[Southern by choice]

So... A shep positive for this could give your goats CAE? I have been considering adding sheep but my goats are more important to me. Going to go check those out, thanks!

@Mike CHS we can take this to anothr thread so as not to hi-jack but I did want to say yes. Basically they are the same. Both articles are really good.
When considering sheep another very serious issue is soremouth (also known as orf). It is zoonotic as well, also can be transmitted to LGD's. Although reportable it seems no one does and most of the sheep people just don't think it is a big deal. It is a serious big deal for dairy goats especially.

We had sheep and they were from a clean herd. We would love to do meat sheep in the future but sadly many don't test for anything and many have this. Once you have it the land is contaminated. We will never have sheep in with goats. They will be on separate land.

 

[Mike CHS]

This thread is a good place for the info Southern. Sometimes a little drift is good.