Quick help needed please

sahmoffour · #1 07/21/12, 01:02 PM

I got my goats on Tuesday night, am brand new to goats. Breeder said they were last wormed in spring after kidding. I've given three doses of Molly's formula #1 for deworming, as we try whenever possible to practice more natural holistic medicine. They've been given probios every day to help with the move. They were used to grass pasture with no brush and here at our place we have nothing but thick brush for them. Her eyelids do seem fairly pale to me especially compared to the other doe I have (her poop is normal). The doe is 3, currently milking and today kept kicking more than normal during milking, has been laying around more and doesn't come to me for scratches like normal, and now has runny poop that's not formed into pellets whatsoever. She is about 135 lb on the weight tape and I have ivermectin injectable 1% here, but dosage online is anywhere from 1 cc per 34 lb to 1 cc per 50 lb depending on type of worms. Would I be safe to give 4 cc orally?

ETA she is still eating and drinking.

noeskimo · #2 07/21/12, 01:25 PM

Are you sure that the change in poop isn't due to the change from pasture to brush -a change in diet?

sahmoffour · #3 07/21/12, 01:59 PM

That's the thing, I'm just not sure since these are my first goats. Her eyelids definitely aren't white, maybe a bit pale. Using Famancha, I would judge them somewhere in the middle, possible a bit pale. Her poop isn't just pellets that are clumping, there's no pellets whatsoever, it's definitely diarrhea. Is it possible that it could just be the diet change causing it?

GoldenWood Farm · #4 07/21/12, 02:02 PM

I use Molly's Herbal wormer, I would go ahead and give her another three days and double the dose of the wormer. That is what Molly recommends and I have done when I have a doe who I suspect has worms. I wanted to add it could be just a change in her diet, if you can I would have a fecal done on her so if she does have worms you know exactly what you are dealing with and how bad.

Justine

sahmoffour · #5 07/21/12, 02:25 PM

Ok, thanks. I'm hoping that it's just the change in her diet!. Can't get a vet until Monday, so will keep an eye on her in the meantime. I'll also keep her on the double dose of Molly's wormer, just to be on the safe side.

Ranger · #6 07/21/12, 03:48 PM

I'd give her some Pepto to help with the diarrhea.

sahmoffour · #7 07/21/12, 05:22 PM

How much pepto would you give?

PaulNKS · #8 07/21/12, 05:38 PM

I agree that it is most likely the change in diet and the stress of relocation, getting to know new people, etc. If she was dewormed in the Spring, she most likely isn't wormy again this soon, unless she was in a dirt lot all this time.

Give her a few days. Keep her away from feed if she didn't get feed at her old home. If you decide to give her feed, introduce it very slowly after she has settle into her new home.

Relocation, especially with new people can be stressful enough to cause this kind of problem, then combine that with any change in diet and you could have a problem, temporarily usually.