The demonstrative sub-project aims to outline the conditions relating to the management and health status of grazing goat farms by evaluating their farm management and health status through the use of indicators (breeding, reproduction, health, biosecurity) and a sanitary screening.
WP1.
Serological analyses on bulk milk (toxoplasmosis and paratuberculosis) and qualitative-quantitative copromicroscopic parasitological analyses on faecal pools will be carried out in grazing goat farms breeding native goats that will voluntarily join the project.
Molecular analysis of Toxoplasma gondii isolates obtained from aborted goat fetuses will also performed in order to identify variability in the protozoan attributable to farm differences. At the same time as the sampling, a questionnaire will be filled in for the collection of data regarding the farm indicators of breeding, reproduction, health and biosecurity.
WP2.
The application of a protocol for the management of parasites (selective treatments on target animals) is envisaged in a farm that native breeds together with cosmopolitan breeds (Saanen and/or Alpine goats) in which problems of efficacy of anthelmintic treatments have been found.
Through periodic sampling, anthelmintic-resistance will be monitored in the selected herd with parasitological (evaluation of the reduction of egg counts per gram of faeces after anthelmintic treatment) and molecular techniques (trend of the frequency of resistance alleles compared to the initial frequency).