The International Goat Association

The INTERNATIONAL GOAT ASSOCIATION (IGA) promotes goat research and development for the benefit of humankind, to alleviate poverty, to promote prosperity and to improve the quality of life.

Thursday September 9, 2010


Information on goats

Veterinary support : Sheep and goat diseases

A collection of didactic pictures to help veterinarians and breeders in their diagnosis Go and consult the pictures directly with their comments : Click here We thank Dr Linda Eliasoff and Dr Eitan Rapoport from Israel for their contribution. These pictures and comments are under their responsability.

2009 Country Report from Nigeria

Sent in by Kayode Sonibare, IGA Country Representative There are many on going research activities on goats in Nigeria as soon as the results are published it will be communicated after obtaining the researcher consent. The strengt of goats in Nigeria is very high (39 million) but most of these goats are owned by very...

Projects of the Veterinary Science Library: African Goats

This link is to the University of Pretoria's Veterinary Faculty. The personnel there have gone to a lot of trouble to create a "Goat Page" with specific reference to African goats. We are sure this will be useful to many people in the goat community. http://www.ais.up.ac.za/vet/goat/goatweb.htm

2009-03 Country Report from China

News from Heifer International China Brief Country Report Heifer International China China has a long history of raising goat. Time could go back over 3000 years ago. With fast development, China has taken the first place of goat head, and by 2006 there had been 199 million heads in stock, 24% of the world total, and...

Can noise kill goats?

Recently an article was published about goats and we would appreciate your input. We have been contacted by the BBC in regards to a story coming out of Taiwan. The report, WIND TURBINE NOISE SUSPECTED OF KILLING 400 GOATS that due to a lack of sleep goats have been dropping dead. Nearby wind turbines are suspected of...
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