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06-30-2019, 07:32 AM
Yeah, that's the problem--they don't have "extensive scientific research" on goats! They would love to assume that goats are the same as sheep, carrying and transmitting the same diseases--but those of us who own goats happen to know that they are NOT the same at all and must be researched separately before implicating them as disease carriers.
I was going over the supporting documents for the recent GMUG working draft plan here in Colorado and the ONLY research they cited that referred to domestic goats was a Pasteurella study from 1994 in which bighorns were kept in captivity with several different species of ungulates. Goats were one of only two species which had no cytotoxic Pasteurella isolates, and neither the goats (purchased from an auction house) nor the bighorns developed disease by the end of their captivity together. So the science which they are using to justify a packgoat ban states clearly that goats are not a threat! Ugh... do these people even read their own "supporting" science?
Here is the link to that study, by the way: http://media.nwsgc.org/proceedings/NWSGC...94-all.pdf
Page 4 says, "To date, no cytotoxic isolates have been identified in domestic goats..."
Page 10 says, "Contact experiments between bighorn sheep, domestic goats, llamas, cattle, and mountain goats did not result in respiratory disease or death of any of the animals."
I was going over the supporting documents for the recent GMUG working draft plan here in Colorado and the ONLY research they cited that referred to domestic goats was a Pasteurella study from 1994 in which bighorns were kept in captivity with several different species of ungulates. Goats were one of only two species which had no cytotoxic Pasteurella isolates, and neither the goats (purchased from an auction house) nor the bighorns developed disease by the end of their captivity together. So the science which they are using to justify a packgoat ban states clearly that goats are not a threat! Ugh... do these people even read their own "supporting" science?
Here is the link to that study, by the way: http://media.nwsgc.org/proceedings/NWSGC...94-all.pdf
Page 4 says, "To date, no cytotoxic isolates have been identified in domestic goats..."
Page 10 says, "Contact experiments between bighorn sheep, domestic goats, llamas, cattle, and mountain goats did not result in respiratory disease or death of any of the animals."