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| | Pans Place Farm - Goats in General |
 | | Toggenburg, brown with white facial, ear and leg stripes, straight nosed, horned or hornless, mostly shorthaired, erect eared goat has been very popular in the USA, comes from N.E. Switzerland, but is 4 inches shorter in height and 18 lb lighter in average than the Saanen. |
 | | They tend to have less tuberculosis, milk fever, post partum ketosis and brucellosis than dairy cows and their milk tends to be of lower bacteria counts than cow milk. |
 | | They have more prepartum pregnancy toxemia than dairy cows, and are known to have laminitis, infectious arthritis, Johne's disease, listeriosis, pneumonia, coccidiosis, scours, scabies, pediculosis, liver fluke disease and mastitis. |
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