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This podcast is sponsored by the American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners. In Season 1, host Dr. Michelle Buckley from Iowa State University will explore dairy goat production by providing insights on improving milk quality and antimicrobial stewardship. Each episode focuses on a different aspect of dairy goat production with guest speakers ranging from veterinarians to farm managers. Questions can be directed to DairyGoatExtension@iastate.edu.Season 1 is also supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agricultural and Food Research Initiative Competitive Program, Antimicrobial Resistance grant number: 2020-04197. Listeners are encouraged to write to DairyGoatExtension@iastate.edu with questions that were sparked by previous episodes for our content experts to discuss.

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Disbudding Pain Management with Dr. Whitney Knauer

June 03, 2024 • The American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners (AASRP) • Season 3 • Episode 6

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Join us for a discussion about a study that looks at ways to mitigate the pain of disbudding kids with Dr. Whitney Knauer of the Department of Veterinary Population Medicine at the University of Minnesota

In this episode we discuss a 2022 paper looking at the different effects of 3 types of prevention and treatment for the process of disbudding goat kids. This paper is titled Effects of Multimodal Pain Management Strategies on Acute Physiological and Behavioral Response to Cautery Disbudding in Neonatal Goat Kids and can be found at

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36870841/

Questions can be sent to Dr. Knauer at knaue020@umn.edu

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