The goat can be successfully inoculated from the sheep, the resulting
vesicles being smaller and less prominent, and the disease assuming a
milder type. It is alleged to pass naturally from sheep to goat, and
from goat to sheep, as well as from goat to goat but, on the whole, it
is a rare disease and goats have been known to live in flocks of sheep
attacked with sheeppox, without themselves contracting the disease. The
malady seems to be of little account to the goat, yet in sheep
countries, the interests of flockmasters would demand that it should be
stamped out as vigorously as the same disease in sheep.