title: Wear of permanent incisors with age on commercial Australian Angora goat farms.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To quantify if, and to what extent, permanent incisor wear differed with age of goat and farm of origin on commercial Australian Angora goat farms.
  
  
  METHODS
  Observations were made on three Angora goat farms in the wheat-sheep zone of Victoria, each managed according to the farmer's practices. Farmers provided a representative flock of does.
  
  
  METHODS
  The proportion and pattern of wear of permanent incisors were recorded and percentage wear calculated. After log(y + 10) transformation, a parsimonious general linear model was developed to relate wear to farm and age, with age considered as a continuous variate.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The range in wear of the permanent incisors was 0-100%. For each farm, the most parsimonious model for permanent first incisor wear and average wear of all permanent incisors was a separate straight line relating the transformed incisor wear to the age of doe. The models accounted for 66-73% of variance. On each farm the incisor wear was similar and low for ages up to approximately 4 years. On all farms, the amount of incisor wear increased dramatically with age, although the rate of increase differed with each farm.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Permanent incisor wear increased with age of goat and differed with farm of origin. Angora goat farmers need to be aware of the potential for incisor wear to affect doe production and health.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, 3220, Australia. bruce.mcgregor@deakin.edu.au.
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: McGregor
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Butler
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000822:Animal Husbandry; D000818:Animals; D003132:Commerce; D005260:Female; D015511:Goat Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006041:Goats; D007180:Incisor / Q000503:physiopathology*; D057085:Tooth Wear / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D014739:Victoria / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: Angora goats; age; broken mouth; dentition; permanent incisor wear