Famancha poll. What is it and what is its worth to me

[FarmboyBill]

I can take a course in it in July if I want. One day, $10.00. By the county Ex serv. Didnt understand much about it when they brushed by it in the basic goat course I took a month ago,

[Alice In TX/MO]

It's just the process you have to go through to get the "official" FAMACHA eye lid color chart.

It's a method of checking your goats for anemia to see if you need to do a fecal exam for blood sucking worms.

I use it.

[vancom]

Oh heck. I was racking my brain for what one would breed with a Lamancha to get a FAMANCHA!

[nehimama]

I'd take it. (I have, in fact.) Ten dollars isn't bad, and if you pay attention, you can learn about parasites, how to use the chart for eye membrane color and what it means. I learned a lot when I took the class.

NeHi

[Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians]

And while your there Bill have them set up a class to learn how to fecal, without it you are worming at salvage, fine for meat goats, a horrible loss of production for dairy goats. Vicki

[Rockytopsis]

I held a FAMACHA clinic here at my farm. It is very helpful along with fecals. We are working on setting up a fecal clinic in the near future.

[BlsdMama]

Originally Posted by vancom

Oh heck. I was racking my brain for what one would breed with a Lamancha to get a FAMANCHA!

So was I, lol!

[FarmboyBill]

Vicki, try to reexplain your post. It went over my head. Whaddia u mean, worming for salvage? And why would it be fine for meat goats, but bad for milkers??

[LaManchaPaul]

Originally Posted by vancom

Oh heck. I was racking my brain for what one would breed with a Lamancha to get a FAMANCHA!

[saanengirl]

FAMACHA is definitely worth the money. You will save much more than that by not deworming when it is unnecessary, and by not losing goats to parasites because you didn't know how to recognize the signs of an overwhelming parasite infection.