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Abortion	Abnormal or early termination of pregnancy
Accredited Herd	One that has been annually tested for Tuberculosis and found free from this disease.
ADGA	American Dairy Goat Association
AGS	American Goat Society
AI	Artificial Insemination
Anemia	Deficiency of RBC (red blood cells) and/or a quantity of pigment known as hemoglobin. The eyelids and gums can be very light, grey or white. Often a sign of parasitism and a need for deworming.
AR	Advanced Registry
Bleat	A goat's vocal expression
Bloat	An acute indigestion. May result from sudden overeating of new legume or grain.
Buck	The male goat
Butterfat	The fat content, or cream of the milk. Often expressed in percentage of milk.
Capriculture	Goat Husbandry
Certified Herd	One that has been annual tested for Brucellosis and found free of this disease.
CGS	Canadian Goat Society
Chevon	Goat meat
Chewing Cud	As with all ruminants, digestion is accomplished by a long process in which the food is subjected to bacterial action and then is regurgitated for more chewing. Just as the saying goes, "Swallow now and chew later!"
Colostrum	The first milk of the doe after freshening. It is rich in antibodies, which aids the kids in getting off to a good start. It is usually very thick and should not be warmed over direct heat. For preventing CAE transmission, colostrum is heated to 135F and held for one hour. It must not go over 145F, or the antibodies are destroyed. (See page on Weck canner/pasteurizer).
Creep	A feeding area which allows kids, but not adults to eat.
Dam	The mother
Dental pad	Part of the gums on the upper jaw. It is basically a substitue for top front teeth.
Disbudding	Removing the horn buds. This is usually done by a hot disbudding iron or caustic paste. Dehorning is usually the term used when a horn has matured, and the process is by cutting.
Doe	The female goat
Doeling	The female goat usually between six months and one year.
Estrus	The period of time when an animal is "in season" or "in heat". This is the breeding period.
Freshening	Giving birth, or kidding
Lactation	The functioning of the glands which produce the milk. The lactation period is simply the time when a doe is milking.
Open Doe	A doe not bred
Overshot or parrot mouth	The lower jaw is shorter than the upper jaw.
Ovulation	Egg released from the ovary.
Polled	A naturally hornless animal. Polled animals have two "bumps" near the area where horns would be.
Precocious Milker	Does that come into milk without being bred.
ROP	Record of Performance (Canadian)
Scours	Acute diarrhea
Scurs	Incomplete horn growth resulting from inadequately removing the horns. Usually these are just short pieces, but sometimes have to be removed if they begin to grow into the goat's skull.
SNF	Solids-Non-Fat. These are the proteins, minerals and other ingredients in milk when water and fat are removed.
Stanchion	A device used to contain goats for feeding, milking, or other work such as hoof trimming or AI. Usually has a method of locking the head in place.
Stripping	Removing the last bit of milk from the udder. This should be done quickly and gently.
Undershot	Lower jaw is longer than the upper, and teeth extend past dental pad.
Wattles	Hair-covered appendages of flesh hanging from the throat area. Sometimes there are "misplaced" wattles on other parts of the body. They serve no real function.
Wether	A buck that has been castrated or neutered.
Yearling	Generally, a buck or doe between 6 and 15 months.

Amino Acids	Organic compounds which occur naturally in plant and animal tissues and form the chief constituents of protein.
Anthelmintic	A drug used to expel worms or internal parasites - a dewormer.
Antibiotic	A substance produced by micro-organisms or synthetically (penicillin, Streptomycin, etc.) which has the ability to inhibit or destroy certain micro-organisms.
Antibodies	Substances produced by the body as a reaction to many agents (viruses, bacteria, toxins). Antibodies exert a specific action against the agent under whose influence they were formed.
Antigen	A substance which will stimulate the production of antibodies when introduced into the body. Vaccines contain antigens which stimulate the animal to build antibodies against the disease.
Antigen (Killed or Inactive)	Substance which induces the primary or recognition stage of antibody production. A second injection is necessary several days or more after the first to induce the antibody production stage.
Antigen (Living)	Substance which stimulates both stages of antibody production.
Antiseptic	Inhibiting growth of microorganisms, or a material which inhibits such growth.
Antiserum	Serum containing antibodies. It produces short-term protection usually two to four weeks.
Antitoxin	Serum containing specific poison-neutralizing antibodies.
Astringent	A drug which contracts tissues and lessens secretions.
Atrophy	Wasting away or shrinking in size of organ, tissue or cell.
Attenuation	The process of decreasing virulence or altering a disease producing agent by growing it in another host, usually for the purpose of making a vaccine.
Autogenous vaccine	Vaccine made from organisms form a specific disease outbreak.
Bacteria	A group of one-celled microorganisms, the smallest of the once-celled plants.
Bactericidal	Possessing the property of killing bacteria
Bacterin	A product containing modified or killed bacteria,prepared for use as a vaccine.
Biological	Medicament derived from a living source. Generally used for disease prevention (see bacterin, vaccine, antiserum, antitoxin)
Booster Vaccine	A second or mutiple vaccination given to increase an animal's resistance to a specific disease.
Caustic	Corrosive; an agent capable of destroying living tissues.
Coccidia	Protozoan organisms which infect the cells lining the digestive tract.
Diluent	The liquid used to 1) Restore dried vaccines. 2) Bring up to volume any substance.
Drench	Give liquid by mouth.
Electrolytes	Compounds made from combinations of various mineral components which help keep the fluid balance of the body under control
Etiology	The cause or origin of a disease.
Gestation	The same as pregnancy (150 days in a goat)
Hemorrhage	Loss of blood
Immunity	The ability of the body to resist or to overcome infection. Antibodies play a large part in immunity. No immunity is absolute or perfect!
Immunity (Acquired)	The resistance a previously susceptible animal has to an infectious disease.
Immunity (Active)	Immunity in which the protective factors against a disease are produced within the body itself.
Immunity (Innate)	Inherited resistance to an infectious disease.
Immunity (Maternal)	A form of passive immunity resulting from immune factors being passed from the mother to the offspring. This may be accomplished either in the uterus or through the milk (especially the colostrum).
Immunity (Passive)	Immunity resulting from the transfer of protective factors from one individual to another. This may be done artificially by obtaining serum from an immune animal and injecting it into a non-immune animal. Passive immunity is of short duration measured in terms of days or weeks.
Infection	The successful invasion and growth of disease producing agents (bacteria, viruses, etc.) in the tissues of the body.
Inflammation	A specific response of the body to injury. Such injury may be due to living agents or from mechanical, chemical or electrical causes. Inflammation is characterized by redness, pain, heat and swelling.
Inoculate	To introduce immune serum, vaccines,or other antigenic material for preventive, curative or experimental purpose.
Insecticide	An agent which kills insects
Intramuscular Injection(IM)	An injection into a muscle.
Intraperitoneal (IP)	An injection into the abdominal cavity.
Intravenous (IV)	Injection into a vein.
L.D.	Lethal dose, a fatal one.
Metabolism	The sum of all the physical and chemical processes by which living substance is produced and maintained.
Pharmaceutical	A medicinal drug as opposed to a biological.
Serum	The fluid portion of blood without the cells or clotting factors. Serum obtained from animals immune to a particular condition and injected into other individuals in order to give the recipient a degree of passive immunity is known as antiserum
Stress	All factors which tend to render the animal more vulnerable to disease. Stress may be environmental, nutritional, psychic or physical.
Subclinical	Without clinical manifestation, said of early stages of, or a slight degree of, a given disease.
Subcutaneous (SQ)	Just beneath the skin.
Toxemia	A general poisoning due to the absorption of toxins, usually bacterial products formed at the site of an infection. Literally, blood poisoning.
Toxin	Poisonous substance.
Toxoid	A toxin which as been treated so as to destroy its toxicity but still leave it capable of stimulating the formation of antibodies when injected into the body.
Trauma	A wound or injury.
Vaccines	Products prepared for the purpose of giving active immunity. Vaccines may be made from viruses, bacteria, or protozoa, either living or killed, or from toxins.
Vaccines (Bacterial)	A vaccine which protects against diseases caused by bacteria.
Vaccine (Killed Virus)	A vaccine produced by infecting an animal, chick embryo or animal tissue with a specific virus. The virus is harvested at the height of infection and subjected to killing agents. The dead virus stimulates the production of antibodies when injected into an animal.
Vaccine (Live Virus)	A vaccine produced by growing a live culture of the virus from which the vaccine is prepared.
Vaccine (Modified Live Virus)	A vaccine made from an attenuated virus.
Vaccine (Monovalent)	A vaccine which produces only one disease immunity.
Vaccine(Polyvalent)	A vaccine which produces immunity against two or more diseases.
Vaccine (Viral)	A vaccine which protects against diseases caused by viruses.
Virus	Minute infection agents, smaller than most bacteria and capable of multiplying only with a living, susceptible host cell. Viruses can remain alive for variable periods outside of living tissues. Some viruses produce severe disease, others are relatively harmless.

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a.c.	ante cibum	of each
ad	ad	to: up to
ad lib.	Ad libitum	at pleasure
alternis horis	alternis horis	every other hour
ante	ante	before
aq.	aqua	water
b.i.d.	bis in die	twice daily
bis	bis	twice
c	cum	with
caps	capsula	capsule
et	et	and
gtt	gutta(e)	drops
H.	hora	an hour
hor.som.,H.S.	hora somni	at bedtime
in d.	in dies	daily
inter	inter	between
lin.	linimentum	linament
liq.	liquor	a solution
lot.	lotio	lotion
noctis	noctis	of the night
non	non	not
non.rep.	non repetatur	do not repeate
O.D.	oculus dexter	right eye
O.L.	oculus laevus	left eye
omn. or.	omni hora	every hour
p.c.	post cibos	after eating
p.r.n.	pro re nata	as needed
q.h.	quaque hora	every hour
q.i.d.	quater in die	4 times a day
q.s.	quantum sufficit	as much as needed
t.i.d.	ter in die	3 times a day
ut dict.	ut dictum	as directed

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