pepto and sulmet scours

[DQ]

my bottle baby pygmy has been scouring off and on for four days. he is 5 weeks old, I'm guessing 6-7 lbs (he was tiny to start with) eats hay and a little equine senior and calf manna. he lives with the other goats. sometimes its gloppy but I've seen regular poops that are a little more wet than usual several times, the poop is regular colored. He is acting normal eating and running around. I started giving him a sprinkle of pro-biotic supplement by hand every day when I first noticed a little gunk stuck to his bottom and legs. yesterday I never saw regular poops and I went to the co-op and bought sulmet. they only had it in tablets and the dose on the label said 1 tablet for 25lb. I crushed up 1/4 tablet and mixed it with some water and a bit of corn syrup and he drank it right down from the bottle. I was considering giving him some pepto but I'm concerned with whether this would alter the effectiveness of the sulmet. I also didn't know if the dose was right as I'm sure it was intended for cattle and I know that the dosage for goats is often different. what would you do at this point? I don't want to go and worm him on top of the sulmet adn really mess up his system. how long should I wait this out before consulting a Vet? possibly in relation to this we have two relatively new additions one of which had had diahrea several days ago but not since. I kept them quarantined for one week but they figured out how to get out and I ended up sticking them in the pen next to everybody else, that was approx a week ago. I have never previously had anything with less than normal poops apart from a few clumpy ones. thanks in advance

[ozark_jewels]

He is about the right age for cocci scours. I have never used the sulmet tablet, just the liquid, so can't help you with the tablet dosage. Also don't know if pepto would interfere. I think I would find the liquid sulmet and treat aggressively for cocci, if he was mine.

[HazyDay]

Im not sure what kind of sours he has but if you want to try my 2 2month old bucklings had it one AM so I put them right on water. for the whole day and they stopped so I put them on milk the next day. (Im thinking it was an overload of grian and silage)

[Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians]

he lives with the other goats.
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This is key, being low to the ground he is always in poop, worm eggs from the new grass and cocci in the dew....you can't just grind up 1/4 of a pill of sulmet and count it as working...someone has to know the kg/mg of the drug to be able to help you figure out how much to use. Why we prefer you order Dimethox 40% from jeffers, we KNOW the dosage on this is 1cc per 10 pounds, since you are not using it as prevention but like as treatment now, use it that same way for 5 days...if you used it as prevention every 21 days orally, you would dose the 2nd 3rd 4th and 5th days as 1/2 dosages. Also worm, you simply can't have young kids in with adult poop without having some problems with worms. What do you worm your adult herd with? Vicki

[DQ]

I found that the sulmet tablet label dosage is correct for goats on Goatwisdom. I hope its correct as I am not going to wait to order the liquid stuff. most of my herd (all three at the time) was was wormed with ivermectin last, except for one recently who had pale eylids and I used Moxidectin (horse cydectin) that seems to have worked for him. the recent additions were also wormed with cydectin several weeks prior to my purchasing them. all goaties have nice pink eyelids and are thrifty. this guy is still mr. obnoxious climbing all over you begging for food and just as perky as ever. I have stopped offering any kind of grainproduct, although he's not too happy about that. he didn't seem to understand why everyone got their dinner except him. (he got his bottle of course, but he usually gets his own little tidbit of along with everyone else) if this is working how soon should I see improvement in the poop department?