Dr Cara Sammons-Shepard, DVM is a practicing veterinarian in Maine and New Hampshire, and when on the road, the majority of her patients are goats. She and her husband have owned and operated a commercial farmstead creamery since 2009. In this podcast, Dr Shepard discusses different topics related to goat medicine and husbandry.
Talking a little pause from calcium to talk about the fall breeding season. The leaves are turning in Maine and in a strange turn of events, I finishe...
This is the first of a couple of episodes talking about calcium. For this first episode, I go into the physiology (I think I kept it mostly under cont...
A departure from your more goat oriented podcast. In this episode I am going to tell you all about what is going on in the veterinary field as of this...
Devin and I recap what all has been going on over the winter and spring at the farm on a rainy truck ride up to my parents' house on the 4th of July. ...
Got some stuff to clear up for people! You may already know some of these things, but I've had a few things bouncing around in my head lately that I h...
I got a couple of requests to talk about general buck keeping, so here we go! Also go check out Episode 39 for a more reproductive focused buck episod...
More Goat Talk about the whole passive transfer of maternal immunity for our goat kids coming at you in this episode. We talked about the actual amazi...
Crash course in immunology of neonatal goat kids part one! In this episode, I try to give a foundation for understanding what all is going on with goa...
Part 2 of Goat Respiratory Stuff - I talk about non-infectious causes of respiratory issues in goats. Discussion includes, inflammatory/allergic issue...
Talking about coughing goats! Well, more accurately, talking about respiratory disease in goats. This is going to be a two parter. In part 1, we get i...