Acknowledgments
I would like to acknowledge with great appreciation and sincere thanks the contributions of the following colleagues: Professor Christophe Chartier, Department of Farm Animal Health and Public Health, National Veterinary School-ONIRIS, Nantes, France, for providing current information on the use of various anthelmintics in goats in Europe in Chapter 10; Dr.
William G. Gavin, Chief Operating Officer, LFB USA, Inc. (formerly GTC Biotherapeutics, Inc.), Framingham, MA, for his major contributions in Chapters 1 and 20 on the content related to transgenic and cloned goats; Dr. John Spiropoulos, Pathologist, Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), Weybridge, Surrey, UK, for his significant contributions to Chapter 5 on the content related to the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy; and Ms. Ann Starbard, author of The Dairy Goat Handbook: For Backyard, Homestead, and Small Farm and former owner of Crystal Brook Goat Cheese, Sterling, MA, for her review and suggestions on dairy goat herd health in Chapter 20. Any errors that might occur in the sections for which these colleagues have provided inputs are solely the responsibility of the author.David M. Sherman
I would like to acknowledge the invaluable assistance of the following colleagues in the preparation of this edition: Dr. Nita Irby, ophthalmologist, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, for her assistance with many clinical cases in goats and with the revisions of Chapter 6; Dr. Pablo Moroni, Quality Milk Production Services at the Animal Health Diagnostic Center in Ithaca, NY, for his insights into the diagnosis and control of mastitis in goats as presented in Chapter 14; Dr. Stephanie Hon, anesthesiologist at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, for her helpful review of the myriad of options for analgesia and anesthesia of goats in a hospital setting; and Dr. Andrew Miller, pathologist at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, for his contribution of excitement and expertise to the understanding of the many specimens from goats that I have brought to him through the years.
Mary C. Smith
From both of us, a special acknowledgment is needed for Dr. David Van Metre (formerly of the Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine) for his preliminary comments on revised chapters and his eagerness to serve as a third author of this textbook, before his untimely death in 2019.