Wormers for milking goats.

Here is a load of information:

http://www.sheepandgoat.com/articles...parasites.html

Safeguard is fenbendazole and also used for humans. Personally, if it's a human use wormer, I drink the milk anyway. I figure I probably can use some dewormer, too. I would rethink if someone else were drinking it.... JMO

That is good. Esp the management suggestions.

I think management makes a huge difference in whether worms are a problem.

Sort of like coccidia. Your best weapon there is feeding above ground level and a pitchfork and wheel barrow.

Or rigorous rotational grazing.

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Alice
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"No great thing is created suddenly." ~Epictitus

Yeah for sure. I have my bucks dry lotted so I usually just wormed them on about the same schedule as the does.

Well last year in summer I just started letting them out to graze anytime I was home in the field by their pen.

So I got one buck came down with the meningeal worm. Deer feed in that field all night. Whhere in the doe pasture the guard dog runs them out. So now I have to worm my bucks more often in the summer with Ivermectin.


Same with coccidia. When I let the kids nurse any time it would be a wet spell and of course kids nursing pee a lot my barn stayed wet and I had trouble with coccidia.

Then I started raising them separate on pasteurized milk and colostrum and using a calf hutch with a moveable fence and no more treating for coccidia and no problem with worms.

Moving them onto fresh ground really helps.

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I want your barn!!!!!!!

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Alice
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"No great thing is created suddenly." ~Epictitus

Alice,

We lucked into that.

It's actually an old tobacco barn as you can see.

The center part where the door is is 14 X 48 and hard packed dirt so we usually just keep that swept, and it's usually dry.

On the right hand side are box stalls and a hay loft above them.

On the other side I built keyhole feeders for grain and there is a gate that the goats can go thru and then into the old tobacco stripping room which is now the milking room.