scholarly journals Survey of husbandry and health on UK commercial dairy goat farms

2019 ◽  
Vol 185 (9) ◽  
pp. 267-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Anzuino ◽  
T. G. Knowles ◽  
M.R.F. Lee ◽  
R. Grogono-Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Body Condition ◽  
Fat Body ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Dairy Goat ◽  
Poor Growth ◽  
Extensive Variation ◽  
Goat Population ◽  
Optimal Value ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Published Research

Published research relevant to the UK dairy goat industry is scarce. Current practices and concerns within the UK dairy goat industry must be better understood if research is to have optimal value. A postal survey was conducted of the farmer membership of the Milking Goat Association as a first step in addressing gaps in knowledge. Questions were asked about husbandry practices, farmer observations of their goats and their priorities for further research. Seventy-three per cent of Milking Goat Association members responded, representing 38 per cent of commercial dairy goat farms and 53 per cent of the commercial dairy goat population in England and Wales. Findings were comprehensive and showed extensive variation in farm practices. Farmers reported pneumonia and scours (diarrhoea) as the most prevalent illnesses of their kids. Pneumonia, diarrhoea, failure to conceive and poor growth were the most prevalent observations of youngstock. Overly fat body condition, assisted kidding, failure to conceive and difficulty drying off were the most prevalent observations of adult milking goats. Farmers’ top priorities for further research were kid health (79.5 per cent of farmers), Johne’s disease (69.5 per cent of farmers), tuberculosis (59 per cent of farmers) and nutrition (47.7 per cent of farmers).

The Effect of Farmer Capacities, Farm Business Resources and Perceived Support of Family, Friends and Associational Networks on Intentions to Invest in Renewable Energy Ventures in the UK

2013 ◽  
pp. 1072-1088
Author(s):  
Aurelian Mbzibain
Keyword(s):  
Positive Influence ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Perceived Support ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Farm Diversification ◽  
Land Tenancy ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Farm Business ◽  
Investment Intentions

The specific role of farmers and their actual or potential involvement with RE adoption and the wider community is potentially important but has not been addressed by research. This research carried out a postal survey of 2000 (response rate of 20.1%) farmers in the West Midlands region of the UK to investigate some of the factors affecting farmers’ intentions to invest in RE production and associated enterprises. Multivariate linear regressions showed that the farmer’s level of education, level of farm diversification, land tenancy status and farm business turnovers were the most important factors affecting intentions. It also emerged that perceived support of family, friends and associational networks was a significant positive influence on farmer’s investment intentions. The policy implications for these results are discussed.

scholarly journals Total Hip Replacement: Results of a Postal Survey of Current Practice on the Cement Fixation of the Acetabular Cup in the UK

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-162
Author(s):  
R. Mootanah ◽  
P. Ingle ◽  
K. Cheah ◽  
J. K. Dowell ◽  
J. C. Shelton
Keyword(s):  
Total Hip Replacement ◽  
Hip Replacement ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Acetabular Cup ◽  
Total Hip ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Laterality, gender and age differences in estimated frequency and actual registration of people with congenital upper limb absences

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Age Differences ◽  
Upper Limb ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Congenital Absence ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Registration Rate ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Gender And Age Differences ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Uk

Initial analyses from a survey of people with unilateral upper limb congenital absence registered with the Cambridge Disablement Services Centre (DSC) indicated differences related to laterality and gender. A postal survey of all DSCs in the UK was conducted and support for these findings was provided from the analysis of the information supplied by the 25 DSCs who could provide data in the format requested. Comparing statistics for the UK population with those gained from the 25 DSCs, estimates for the number of children and adults who should be registered with DSCs in the UK are made. From these figures it is suggested that the non-registration rate for adults with a congenital absence of an upper limb could be as high as 64%.

Body condition explains little of the interindividual variation in the swarming behaviour of adult male little brown myotis (Myotis lucifugus) in Nova Scotia, Canada

2015 ◽  
Vol 93 (6) ◽  
pp. 469-476
Author(s):  
A.J. Gallant ◽  
H.G. Broders
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Body Condition ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Fat Body ◽  
Myotis Lucifugus ◽  
Interindividual Variation ◽  
Fitness Consequences ◽  
Good Body Condition ◽  
Myotis Myotis ◽  
Swarming Behaviour

Two competing activities of temperate insectivorous bats during the fall swarming period have direct fitness consequences: fat storage for hibernation and mating. This study investigated whether interindividual variation in body condition (as a metric of stored fat; body mass/forearm length) correlated with reproductive status and influenced swarming behaviour of adult male little brown myotis (Myotis lucifugus (Le Conte, 1831)) in Nova Scotia, Canada. We predicted that bats in good body condition would more likely be reproductive and would be more likely to remain at, and closer to, a swarming site than males in poor body condition. As predicted, males in good body condition were more likely to be in advanced reproductive states than those in poor body condition. However, contrary to the prediction, males in good body condition spent significantly less time at the swarming site than males with poor body condition. There was no difference between bats of contrasting body conditions in the probability of relocating them or how far from the swarming site they roosted. Because variation in swarming behaviours of male M. lucifugus at a swarming site was not explained by body condition, one or more other factors (e.g., social, energetic) must be important.

scholarly journals Characterization of an unusual transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in goat by transmission in knock-in transgenic mice

2013 ◽  
Vol 94 (8) ◽  
pp. 1922-1932 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rona Wilson ◽  
Declan King ◽  
Nora Hunter ◽  
Wilfred Goldmann ◽  
Rona M. Barron
Keyword(s):  
Unusual Case ◽  
Neurodegenerative Disorder ◽  
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy ◽  
Small Ruminants ◽  
Dairy Goat ◽  
Spongiform Encephalopathy ◽  
Variant Form ◽  
Sheep And Goats ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Mouse Lines

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder of cattle, and its transmission to humans through contaminated food is thought to be the cause of the variant form of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. BSE is believed to have spread from the recycling in cattle of ruminant tissue in meat and bone meal (MBM). However, during this time, sheep and goats were also exposed to BSE-contaminated MBM. Both sheep and goats are experimentally susceptible to BSE, and while there have been no reported natural BSE cases in sheep, two goat BSE field cases have been documented. While cases of BSE are rare in small ruminants, the existence of scrapie in both sheep and goats is well established. In the UK, during 2006–2007, a serious outbreak of clinical scrapie was detected in a large dairy goat herd. Subsequently, 200 goats were selected for post-mortem examination, one of which showed biochemical and immunohistochemical features of the disease-associated prion protein (PrPTSE) which differed from all other infected goats. In the present study, we investigated this unusual case by performing transmission bioassays into a panel of mouse lines. Following characterization, we found that strain properties such as the ability to transmit to different mouse lines, lesion profile pattern, degree of PrP deposition in the brain and biochemical features of this unusual goat case were neither consistent with goat BSE nor with a goat scrapie herdmate control. However, our results suggest that this unusual case has BSE-like properties and highlights the need for continued surveillance.

Recruitment, retention, satisfaction and stress in child and adolescent psychiatrists

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Littlewood ◽  
P. Case ◽  
R. Gater ◽  
C. Lindsey
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Staffing Requirements ◽  
Safe Access

Aims and MethodA postal survey was sent to all consultant child and adolescent psychiatrists in the UK and Eire examining recruitment, retention, job satisfaction and job stress.ResultsA response was received from 333 (60%) child and adolescent psychiatrists. Sixty-one per cent indicated their service was inadequately resourced and 89% reported that their service failed to meet the College's minimum staffing requirements. Safe access to in-patient beds was not available to 71%. One hundred and thirty vacant posts were identified. Rates of psychological distress and burnout were high. Adequate services and the presence of a close, supportive colleague were associated with higher rates of satisfaction and lower rates of psychological distress and emotional exhaustion.Clinical ImplicationsA multi-faceted approach is suggested and recommendations are described under the headings of self-management, training, recruitment and commissioning.

scholarly journals Mycobacterium avium Subspecies paratuberculosis DNA and Antibodies in Dairy Goat Colostrum and Milk

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karianne Lievaart-Peterson ◽  
Saskia Luttikholt ◽  
Maaike Gonggrijp ◽  
Robin Ruuls ◽  
Lars Ravesloot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mycobacterium Avium ◽  
Mycobacterium Avium Subspecies Paratuberculosis ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Dairy Goat ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Dairy Goats ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Milk Samples ◽  
Zoonotic Risk ◽  
Goat Population

Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) is endemic in the Dutch dairy goat population causing economic loss, and negatively influencing welfare. Moreover, there are concerns about a potential zoonotic risk. Therefore the industry’s objectives are to decrease MAP prevalence, limit economic losses as well as reduce the concentration of MAP in (bulk) milk. To diminish within-farm spread of infection, vaccination, age dependent group housing with separation of newborns from adults, as well as rearing on artificial or treated colostrum and milk replacers are implemented. However, the importance of MAP contaminated colostrum and milk as a route of infection in dairy goat herds is unknown. Therefore the aim of this study was to detect the presence of MAP DNA in colostrum and milk from dairy goats in infected herds. A convenience sample of 120 colostrum samples and 202 milk samples from MAP infected dairy goat herds were tested by IS900 real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) for MAP DNA. Furthermore, 22 colostrum samples and 27 post mortem milk samples of goats with clinical signs consistent with paratuberculosis from known infected herds were tested. The majority of samples were from goats vaccinated against MAP. Positive or doubtful PCR results were obtained in none of the 120 and two of the 22 colostrum samples, and in eight of the 202 and four of the 27 milk samples Negative PCR results were obtained in the remaining 140 (99%) colostrum samples and 217 (95%) milk samples.

scholarly journals Liaison psychiatry continues to expand: developing services in the British Isles

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (9) ◽  
pp. 339-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geraldine Swift ◽  
Else Guthrie
Keyword(s):  
Local Development ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Liaison Psychiatry ◽  
Specialist Registrar ◽  
Current State ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Uk

Aims and MethodA postal survey of consultants in liaison psychiatry was carried out in the spring of 2002 to document the current state of liaison psychiatry in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Information was collected on post specifications, clinical organisation and plans for further local development.ResultsNinety-three liaison consultants were identified. Seventy-seven posts were full-time or half-time, compared with 43 such posts in 1996. During the same time period, specialist registrar training posts have doubled from 30 to 61. A third of respondents anticipated further consultant posts in their region.Clinical ImplicationsDespite the increase in the number of liaison consultants since 1996, the numbers still fall below that recommended by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Liaison consultants need to improve links with primary care and continue to develop specialised services to demonstrate the qualitative and financial benefits that liaison psychiatry has to offer to a wide range of patients.

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