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rachels.haven
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Well, I had a pudding pooer goat again today, so I pulled a few fecals on the goat that was runny and a few that had no symptoms AND....
...everyone has a ridiculous number of coccidia. Even the asymptomatic goats, which is why it seems like they're taking turns having pudding poo.
I called the good vet, since I'm dealing with 24 goats in that barn (bucks across the barnyard appear to have been spared) and she recommended maybe snooping around and looking for some of the harder to get a hold of things, and mentioned a Rx for the sulfa drugs, but doesn't like them as much because of the antibiotic part, but says they usually do a good job nipping it back if I have to use them. She seems to think the adults can muddle their way through things. Alternately she mentioned a medicated feed. We don't use tons of feed though, so I'm not sure if it would help or just breed resistance. I'll consider it after treatment.
So I guess at this point I'm going to break out the baycox for the keeper kids from this year-Dahlia, Trinka, and the new ND bucklings Obi and Ant. Then I'm going to corid the rest of everyone, since I don't have much Baycox and it's extremely expensive, so at least those who have a scouring baby's rear end to lick and infect themselves (3?)...and Ava because she had pudding poo for a while too. Then the others I will watch like a hawk, I guess.
After treatment I will clean the goats' sheets, and get rid of some of oocysts in the environment.
The wethers will need to be corid. Their processing date is coming.
We won't breed resistance this way I hope.
...everyone has a ridiculous number of coccidia. Even the asymptomatic goats, which is why it seems like they're taking turns having pudding poo.
I called the good vet, since I'm dealing with 24 goats in that barn (bucks across the barnyard appear to have been spared) and she recommended maybe snooping around and looking for some of the harder to get a hold of things, and mentioned a Rx for the sulfa drugs, but doesn't like them as much because of the antibiotic part, but says they usually do a good job nipping it back if I have to use them. She seems to think the adults can muddle their way through things. Alternately she mentioned a medicated feed. We don't use tons of feed though, so I'm not sure if it would help or just breed resistance. I'll consider it after treatment.
So I guess at this point I'm going to break out the baycox for the keeper kids from this year-Dahlia, Trinka, and the new ND bucklings Obi and Ant. Then I'm going to corid the rest of everyone, since I don't have much Baycox and it's extremely expensive, so at least those who have a scouring baby's rear end to lick and infect themselves (3?)...and Ava because she had pudding poo for a while too. Then the others I will watch like a hawk, I guess.
After treatment I will clean the goats' sheets, and get rid of some of oocysts in the environment.
The wethers will need to be corid. Their processing date is coming.
We won't breed resistance this way I hope.
...but, because ya know what ya are facing and have a "plan of action" to combat it with.....so much better, than guessing and throwing the "kitchen sink" at it hoping something will work....
