New Nubian Doeling

[Southern by choice]

What were their counts?
And are you skilled enough for cocci? I would be checking for that as well.
They are very very small.

 

[Goatgirl47]

Me and my brother looked and looked to see if there were any other eggs, but we found none except for what looked like the brown stomach worms. I'm pretty sure she doesn't have coccidiosis.

There were too many to count, although not a whole lot compared to the amount of eggs we found in our Alpine doe a few months back. I think I will run another fecal soon to make sure though.

 

[babsbag]

You should run another one after you worm her to make sure it worked.

One good thing about living in a HOT DRY climate and on a hill with no standing water is that worms don't like it here. Tape worm is about all I deal with.

ETA...and Cocci

 

[Goatgirl47]

My Mom has always thought that Harriet was weaned too early therefore stunting her growth. So I just asked the previous owner and he said she was weaned at approximately two months old. He also said that she was born on November 29th.

 

[TAH]

she is such a cutie

She doesn't look 8 months old to me.

Has she gained any weight?

 

[Goatgirl47]

In person I think she looks 8 months old. She is just severely stunted. I guess from being weaned too early?
I don't know if she has gained any weight, because we haven't weighed her for the second time yet.

Here are a couple more pictures from the other day:

 

[TAH]

Maybe it is seeing her next to the young goatsI don't know.

 

[Southern by choice]

I your herd! Made me smile just seeing the pics!

Now that you have dewormed her you may want to hit her with a second dewormer of a different class.

It takes some time for them to rebound but you can get her there!
Cocci is very small on a slide an untrained eye will miss it.

You may want to consider some Chaffhaye... I mentioned it in another thread. You will have to find a dealer but it is good stuff.

 

[Goatgirl47]

Thank you!

We've been giving all the (goat) kids an herbal dewormer and we'll have to see if it works. It's the only other wormer we have besides DuMOR pellets.

We actually have a lot of good quality Chaffhaye in our barn right now. A while ago we had ordered a lot of it because (back then) our milk cows loved it during milking. But we got a few new cows and now of course none of them care for it, they prefer the Alfalfa pellets. Our goats - and the calves living with the goats - love it though. I'll have to introduce some of it to Harriet soon!

 

[Green Acres Farm]

Be careful with herbal dewormers. Make sure you are getting fecals done to make sure their worm load stays low. I posted a thread about that titled: Do herbal wormers actually work?
Also, pelleted dewormer is often known to be ineffective. Plus, it is hard to feed exactly right individual amounts- resulting often in underdosing and worm resistance.