Worm or wait?

nc_mtn · #1 03/02/14, 07:41 AM

We bought a healthy and friendly girl last night at an auction. She is breed and starting to fill her bag. The guy that had her said she should be due in just over a month.
It didn't occur to me to ask until I got home about working. I don't think she need it now, but I'm wondering when I should plan on doing it because of the baby. Should I work her before the baby or wait? I don't want to harm the babies.

nc_mtn · #2 03/02/14, 09:43 AM

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Here is a couple of pics. We're tying her out in the yard while we're around the house until spring gets here with her food.

Alice In TX/MO · #3 03/02/14, 10:22 AM

You bought a BEAUTIFUL goat! She looks like she has been well taken care of.

You have a couple of options:
Look at the color of the inside of her lower eyelid. If pale, she needs to be dewormed.

Take a fecal sample to a vet. Get a fecal check done for worm eggs.

I'd also get a blood sample drawn and have it checked for CAE, Caprine Arthritis Encephalitis. It's a bad disease that can ruin her udder and would pass the disease to her kids through her milk.

Squeaky McMurdo · #4 03/02/14, 01:53 PM

Is it safe to worm potentially pregnant does with Ivermectin?

My girls came back from their 1.5 month visit with the buck looking pretty gross. Pretty sure it's shedding mixed with having a stinky peeing buck as a pen mate, but their breeder whom I took them to has MS and while I know her herd is CAE and CL free I don't think they have been wormed in a while. In fact I suspect Hercules got his fatal safeguard resistant tapeworm from Toast last summer who was given to me by said breeder due to a bum leg.

They were wormed in January before they left. Would that have kept them fairly safe?

OP she is GORGEOUS! I love black and white goats.

Backfourty,MI. · #5 03/02/14, 03:35 PM

Such a pretty girl! I would do like Alice & check her lower inner eyelid, if it's pale then I would worm her otherwise I would wait until the day she kids.
What is her name?

Frosted Mini's · #6 03/02/14, 05:03 PM

Squeaky, are they thin, and how are their eyelids? I'd check body condition, eyelids, and get a fecal, then decide from there. Ivermectin is safe in pregnancy, but Ivermectin plus is only safe at the end of pregnancy (the Plus is a flukicide, which is bad for early pregnancy). Valbazen is also only for end of pregnancy. I think Cydectin is okay, though.

Minelson · #7 03/02/14, 06:53 PM

She is really pretty! I would suggest you also send a fecal sample in for Johnes disease testing.

Good luck with her!

nc_mtn · #8 03/03/14, 08:16 PM

Her eyes look fine to me. I'll keep watch with her. She is super friendly.

Thanks for the help