Post by Multi-taskingmom on Dec 20, 2017 17:35:15 GMT -5
I have some questions about Johne's.
Let me start by giving a little back story. In 2010, we bought a cow and calf, unrelated, but from the same farm. They came from a closed herd and were thoroughly vet checked before we bought them. The cow, Dorothy gave us a nice heifer calf (Lily). The calf (Fiona) we raised and bred and she gave us a steer, but died shortly after from Ecoli-mastitis. She went from healthy to dead in less than 24 hours. Anyway, we raised her steer, (Chip) and had him butchered. We sold Dorothy (I wish we never had, but that's another story). We bred Lily after much difficulty - she was very hard to settle. She gave us a nice steer (Rumpus) who we butchered last December. Fast forward to now and we had to make the sad decision to send Lily to freezer camp. She just would not settle. We tried a round of shots per the vet and then tried a cidhr. In all we AIed her 5 times and she just wouldn't settle. We had her vet checked and he could find no reason that she would not settle.
So to make a long story longer, we are wondering if it would be a good idea to purchase a couple of young beef steers and raise them for the freezer. Our biggest concern is Johne's or any other disease that might be transmitted to goats. We have a rather nice (in my opinion) herd of dairy goats that are the light of my and my kids eyes. I would hate to bring anything onto our property that could be passed on to them.
So what to do. I believe I have read (though I am about to do more research, I thought I would start here) that Johne's is not shed until they are about 2 years old.
Please tell me all you know.
Marsha
Let me start by giving a little back story. In 2010, we bought a cow and calf, unrelated, but from the same farm. They came from a closed herd and were thoroughly vet checked before we bought them. The cow, Dorothy gave us a nice heifer calf (Lily). The calf (Fiona) we raised and bred and she gave us a steer, but died shortly after from Ecoli-mastitis. She went from healthy to dead in less than 24 hours. Anyway, we raised her steer, (Chip) and had him butchered. We sold Dorothy (I wish we never had, but that's another story). We bred Lily after much difficulty - she was very hard to settle. She gave us a nice steer (Rumpus) who we butchered last December. Fast forward to now and we had to make the sad decision to send Lily to freezer camp. She just would not settle. We tried a round of shots per the vet and then tried a cidhr. In all we AIed her 5 times and she just wouldn't settle. We had her vet checked and he could find no reason that she would not settle.
So to make a long story longer, we are wondering if it would be a good idea to purchase a couple of young beef steers and raise them for the freezer. Our biggest concern is Johne's or any other disease that might be transmitted to goats. We have a rather nice (in my opinion) herd of dairy goats that are the light of my and my kids eyes. I would hate to bring anything onto our property that could be passed on to them.
So what to do. I believe I have read (though I am about to do more research, I thought I would start here) that Johne's is not shed until they are about 2 years old.
Please tell me all you know.
Marsha