CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures

[Baymule]

Mike, you have some darn good vet prices!

Fred, good job on the fence post digging. It is hard work any way you look at it. We have been working on our place for 2 years and still haven't finished the fence. We have the posts, wire, but we keep getting side tracked....

 

[CntryBoy777]

By this time in "Life" @Baymule , we all have to "Do as Needed", and you have had many other "Issues" to deal with, and ya know....2yrs really isn't very long. BTW how is DH coming along?

 

[Goat Whisperer]

My understanding is a fecal is a fecal, doesn't really matter what animal it is. They are counting eggs and eggs is eggs! Hope the vet doesn't prove me wrong.

Not true.
With goats, you really want the McMasters method for the fecal. Every "pet vet" does a normal float, some farm vets use the McMasters but others don't.
Vets that don't do much with farm animals will know how to identify common parasites in dog or cats (hook, round, whip worms- to name a few, cocci & Giardia are hit or miss) and if anything is found on the slide, the animal is dewormed.

Goats are very different. The Barberpole worm egg is nearly identical to the Liverfluke egg. They need two totally different drugs- a pet vet wouldn't be able to tell the 2 apart. Many pet vets will also miss goat coccidia eggs as well.

Goats are also not dewormed everytime they get a parasite, they have a certain "threshold" that you would worm at. This is why the McMasters is important- you get the Eggs Per Gram count (EPG).

So yes, huge difference. We are big into educating the public about this and teach how to do it as well.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

@CntryBoy777 I know of a place that you can mail fecal samples to, it's like $10 per sample. They do the McMasters and from what I've heard, they are very good.
I don't use them (run them myself) but I know others who do. I'd be more than glad to send you the information.

 

[CntryBoy777]

I would appreciate that @Goat Whisperer , that way I can be certain no matter what they might say....I don't like doing business with those that don't back up their "Claims".

 

[Goat Whisperer]

I'll pull the link and send it tomorrow

 

[Goat Whisperer]

http://www.midamericaagresearch.net/instructions.php

Found it

 

[CntryBoy777]

Thanks GW...

 

[Baymule]

By this time in "Life" @Baymule , we all have to "Do as Needed", and you have had many other "Issues" to deal with, and ya know....2yrs really isn't very long. BTW how is DH coming along?

He is in a lot of pain, miserable, and wishing he was already on the other side of therapy. He has months of therapy ahead of him and pretty much all of it is going to hurt. But we'll get through this and it will be good.

 

[CntryBoy777]

I wish he was on the otherside of it too....but, it is a seemingly long, slow road to travel. Sure hope the pain and discomfort eases up for him a bit here soon, and I know you both will get thru it, but may that time be as short as it can be and put behind ya in short order...