Deccox question

[6e]

I've never treated our goats for cocci, but at the advice of a friend we decided maybe we should. I picked up some Deccox at the coop and have been mixing it in the feed at the rate that they told me at the coop which was 1/4# per 500 pounds of feed. At any rate, we've been giving the Deccox for 4 days now and I've noticed that the goat's poo is a little more running and a bunch of it is strung together like pearls. So, am I doing something wrong?

[Patty0315]

I do not use feed thru anti coccidia meds. Problem with them is the animals needs to eat x number of pounds of feed to get enough meds to work.

I use dimethox and everyone gets it orally like it or not. I give prevenative every 3 weeks.


Patty

[Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians]

How are you figuring out your weights? You are buying a product that the whole container is to be mixed into a ton of feed, for them to now sell it to you as a mixable product, and you are mixing in a bucket? There is no way you can be sure of what you are feeding and how much to each goat.

Prevention treatments should be with a sulfa, dimethox, etc....or simply move them to a drugged feed from the coop with the dimethox mixed in correctly.

Cocci and in some cases worms are not seen the first few years someone has goats, unless severly debilitated animals are your first purchases. But kid growth problems seem to creep in about year 3, when cocci an worm preventions simply have to become part of management or your kid size and your mortality suffer. So since this mixing idea is a poor one and you do have to come up with another idea anyway for your next kid crops, and adults rarely have problems with cocci, come up with a better idea to use to treat for cocci, like the dimethox, albon or another sulfa when small, then moving them to a pellet that contains deccox or rumensin or lasalocid. vicki