Raising Healthy Goats In Primitive Conditions

My  sincere  desire  in  preparing  this  booklet  is  that  it  will  serve  to be  readily  used  as  a  reference  and  aid  in  the  raising  of  goats. Veterinary  information  and  assistance  are  in  short  suppiy  3r  non- existent  in many  areas  of  the  world.  The  author  has  endeavored  to write  this  booklot  in  a  brief  style.  Touching  on  the  most important 

diseases  and  conditions  and  providing  appropriate  dosages, treatments  and  recommendations. 1 he writer  of this booklet  has been  in veterinary  practice  for 45 years, taking  care  of  both  large  and  sma!!  animals.  Aftsr  graduating  from the  University  of Pennsylvania,  School  of Veterinary  Medicine,  he was intimately associated  with  his  father  introducing  and  developing  the Polled Hereford  breed  of  beef  cattle  in  California.  His  6000  acre  cattle  ranch  was  located  at Woodlake,  California  in  tha  foothills  of  the 

High  Sierra  range  of  mountains. 

The  author  has  traveled  to  Haiti,  helping  with  veterinary  work,  as well  as Mexico,  and  to  Havasupai  Indians  down  in  the  grand Canyon of  Arizona.  He  also  mad8  a  trip  to  Israel  in  1968. He  is prasently  in active  veterinary  practice  in Central  California  at Woodlake,  and  much  05  his  time  is  spent  on  working  with  small ruminants  (sheep  and  goats). This  manual  is dedicated  to people  (providing  hop8  and  encouragement}  who  must  by  necessity  derive  their  custenance  from  the  milk and  meat  of  the  goat.