cocci im goats

[coonripper]

Whats a natural way to treat this and to prevent this? The goat guy at the fair said that one of the goats may of had cocci and we shoudl treat ours to prevent it. Im new to goats and was wondering if anyone knew of a natural way to help this out?

[catdance62]

i dont know of any natural ways, but the when your kids are born, you should give them cocci prevention at 3,6,9, and 12 weeks. Di-Methox, Corid, and Albazon are all cocci treatments. Also, if your herd is too dense for the given area it can be a problem, or if drinking water and barn area is not kept clean.

[Cannon_Farms]

I am all about doing things as natural as possible, but this is one of those things that I wont fool around with and use albon or demethox. You can lose growth and development because of this and its just not worth it not to use what works.
I personally dont know of a natural treatment.

[DQ]

I wish I had an answer. sites will tell you to keep the stocking rates low. don't feed on the ground. make it so kids can't get their feet in feeders. I did this. I practiced salvage treatment on wethers now for two years. last year I was on a much smaller property. each wether needed treatment one or multiple times. their growth was very poor in comparison to the doelings that had medicated feed. this year. I am on a much larger acreage. less then 1 goat per acre. lots of browse. I decided to try the natural way again thinking the new very low stocking rates and livestock virgin ground might reduce problems. nope. one wether has been put down already. one needs it. two other males also got sick. one recovered after treatment. one buckling continued to have off and on problems and I tried to pen up and switch to medicated feed as I wanted to keep him. he died from unkown causes. possibly a broken neck in an incident with my bucks on the other side of the fence. if he had been fed medicated feed from the beginning the situation would have never occured. my doelings on the other hand all have feed available to them that is medicated with deccox. they are all healthy happy and growing well.

this will be the last year I don't practice preventative treatment for cocci on all goatlings. in my opinion, the sites that suggest it can be controlled with enviroment (other than keeping and raising them on wire floors) have a nice idea that just doesn't work.

as far as natural treatments go. there is nothing I am aware of that is tested to be safe and effective. there is no reason to believe that an effective treatment that can be considered natural would be any safer then coccidostats currently available. if something can be called natural it just means it can fly under the radar of agencies that test for these things and attempt to keep the public from being ripped off. they would likely be alot less targeted and more likely to have unintended consequences than the the tried and true safe coccidostats on the market.

[moonspinner]

Back to back wet years in my area have seen stubborn cocci cases. I don't know any natural cure and it's nothing to experiment with. Kids that have to be treated multiple times generally are smaller and scrawnier looking.