Posted by Vicki McGaugh on December 05, 2000 at 12:29:01:
In Reply to: Re: wormer for small herd posted by Allison on December 05, 2000 at 12:06:55:
I would probably just pick up some wormer every several months from the vet, a cattleman or goat owner in the area. My choice of wormer is Valbazen because it is very broadspectrum, much more so than Ivermectin. And managed correctly the only time a doe would need to be wormed during preganancy especially the very beginning where any drugs or wormers (including Ivermectin) can cause fetal abnomalities, resulting in abortion, is if you purchased a new doe newly bred, than yes I would probably choose to use something like Safeguard. Ivermectin products come in toothpaste looking tubes for horses, and are calculated at triple the dose, so a 100 pound goat would get enough for a 300 pound horse, and they are quite inexpensive, well in the grand scheme of things with anything goat:) I purchase 99% of my stuff from the Jeffers Livestock and Equine Catalogs, pet catalog also for dogs and cats. 1800-Jeffers