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Maggie Leman
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Username: maggieleman
Post Number: 1223
Registered: 07-2005
Posted From: 64.102.64.115
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 08:55 am: | |
Most dewormers need to be given at 2 to 5 times the horse or cattle dose by weight and sometimes for several days to work for goats. Most people don't do this. Many dewormers are not effective at any dose (Safeguard and panacur are mostly useless in the US) Pelleted dewormers are the least effective because the wormier the ogat the less they eat.
Maggie Leman
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Posted From: 4.253.125.144
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 08:48 am: | |
I lost another goat. His stool specimen showed hook worms and coccidia. The vet said that he has had this for a while. The wormer his previous owner gave him didn't work at all. |
Maggie Leman
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Post Number: 1221
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Yes give the Thiamin as treating for polio (the falling and the head pulling to the side are signs of thiamin deficiency) and you might also continue with treating for coccidia with a sulfa drug. He should weigh considerably more than 15 pounds for a 10 week old boer buckling. I have NPGA registered pygmy wethers and bucks the same age that weigh that much.
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Posted From: 4.252.231.112
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 08:12 pm: | |
I ended with losing my nubian. But I have encountered another problem with a pure bred boer, he is only 2 1/2 mo. old. I just bought him 2 weeks ago. I had him and his twin sister pinned up together. He was a biter, always chewing on pants legs, etc. They got out into the pasture with the other goats couple days ago. I put them back in the pin and yesterday they got out again. I found him isolated away from the herd. His tail was down and standing with his back arched. (He was wormed previously the day we brung him home by the people we got him from). He had soft feces. His membranes are light pink. I gave him 3cc of ivermectin plus orally.(he roughly weighs 15lbs) and Nutri-drench. Today I went down and tried to stand him up and his legs were weak; walking alittle and falling down; his head and neck fell to the side. I brung him up to the house and gave him Sulmet/Aeromycin powder mixed in water with a 3cc syringe on and off all day long. I have been giving him electrolyte supplement all day. I gave him 1cc of iron IM. Nutri-drenched once today. Very poor appetite. He has been nibbling on grass today; walking and falling down. Seeing my past experience of weak legs and the goat not standing by morning I have him in a sling for the night. His legs are touching the ground but only enough where he can walk, but not fall down. He is starting to drink water and eating a little bit of a bale of hay. I have dumor goat feed mixed with 12% sweet feed available for him, but he is not interested. He is started to chew on the shirts and pants legs this evening. Starting to maaah at us. Wagging his tail and moving around more. What is this???? When should he show serious improvement? Their pasture is not wet. I am taking a stool sample to the vet in the am. What else can I do to help him get better. Should I give Vit.B or Thiamin?? |
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