Bucks look a little off

Starsmom · #1 04/17/08, 06:46 PM

My son has 4 bucks, two of them look a little off to me. They act fine, eat fine, drink fine all seems fine EXCEPT they look terribly thin and their hair is coarse. I do know that they have had a copper deficiency. We treated them with copper every day for about 2 weeks and then went to a couple times a week. Since backing down they started looking bad again. I'm guessing it is copper def again. How long can we give them the granulated copper? I just don't want to go the opposite direction and overdose them on it. It is only 2 out of the 4 and they are the dark older ones. They younger ones are fine. What do you think?

crazygoatgal · #2 04/17/08, 07:05 PM

PM Jillis, she is very knowledgible about copper and deficiency.

Alldia · #3 04/17/08, 07:55 PM

hi my name is diane Ilive in mississippi down here we are very poor in minerals

and I use a multy mineral shot that I get from valley vet you need a

perscription from vet it is great. It helps with coarce hair and weigh gain.

susanne · #4 04/17/08, 08:47 PM

sstarsmom you might want to have fecal checked. it is not all copper problem.
what kind of mineral do you have out for them?

Starsmom · #5 04/17/08, 09:51 PM

I have a mineral block out. I have tried loose minerals and never fails, they take the bowl and drop it into the water bucket. They seem to really like the block. I do usually use Ivermectin, but have used Safeguard the last worming and also wormed again today. The vet said Safeguard is fine. I'm gonna go back to ivermectin. Don't really trust the fecals done here. Had one done on my horse and was told very clean..wormed him and could visually see the worms...so, I don't have faith in the fecals here.