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  1. Parasites
    Hi everyone! I have two 9 yr old African Pygmy goats who have never had external or internal parasites. They never are with other goats so they’re a very isolated duo (mainly because the whether has a chronic head wound and it’s unsafe to put him with other goats that might butt heads with...
  2. Health & Wellness
    What do you use for lice and ticks. We live in the midwest and they are realy bad this year.Thank you.
  3. Health & Wellness
    I’m at a total loss here. We have two shots of ivermectic (awful experience) to our whole herd because we saw what we thought were mites on our buck. Now it’s back after two treatments and when I looked at his pen pal he has red bugs on him?? This is our bucks balding right now. What is it?!
  4. Health & Wellness
    About two weeks ago, I noticed my fawn wether had started to lose some hair on his neck, upon further examination I saw he had biting lice ( the parasite's body is bigger than the head). I dusted him, and my other does (even though that had no lice that I could see, or any hair loss symptoms)...
  5. Health & Wellness
    My goats have lice. They got it last year and I treated with injectable Ivermectin, 2ml per 100lbs subcutaneous injection as directed by my vet at the time. It worked great. My question is - is that safe for my does that may be pregnant this year (bred on 11/22, 11/27)? And yes I've consulted...
  6. Health & Wellness
    So… we picked up a 9 week old kid last week. Immediately upon getting home we noticed she had lice, so we tried to treat it. We put her in a separate spot in our barn and visited her frequently but noticed she would not drink, so we decided to bring her inside. Once she got inside I could...
  7. Health & Wellness
    Hi all, first time poster, medium time reader. I have two 8 month old pet Pygmy wethers who have been suffering from lice. I hope you can give some advice how to finally get rid of it! Here's what I've done so far: about 2 weeks ago I treated them with a Permethrin powder (CHEMTECH D Prozap...
  8. Health & Wellness
    I got two Pygmy babies and they have lice. I bought Martins permethrin 10% but I don’t know what to do with it. The only instructions under goat say mix the entire 8oz bottle with 50 gallons of water. Do I need to purchase something else or is there a way to dilute this??
  9. Parasites
    So I have all three of these in my heard. Sucking lice have gotten worse. And I think scabies isaking a bigger come back because one of my does has fur missing on her neck but i think that could be from stress and regular mites. I bought cylence. Will it take care of everything? I normally use...
  10. Parasites
    this morning we found lice eggs in our 2 month old buckling. we checked all the other goats and none of them have lice yet. what is the best way to treat this? i haven't seen any live lice yet.
  11. Parasites
    Long story short, I bought a very fancy new doe from one of the top breeders in my state and she came with the gift of lice. Joy! I now have 7 does and 4 kids affected. Thankfully my boys on the other side of the garden are totally fine. I'm deathly allergic to chemicals and pesticides...
  12. New Member Introductions
    Hi from New Zealand. I'm a new goat mum, my hubby went out hunting Sunday and brought back a feral kid for our 9year old. I'm not on how old she is but would guess at about a week? My issue is she's not interested in drinking. I'm forcing the teat (the red and yellow, same one we've used for...
  13. Health & Wellness
    Hi (again), I've discovered that my two 11wk old goats have sucking lice. They also have pretty bad FAMACHA scores (was improving after toltrazuril for cocci, now fading again), so I want to treat them with Ivomec injectable. The dose I plan to use is 1cc/40lbs, please correct me if that's...
  14. Goat Management
    My goats got lice again, just like every winter... I have 4 preggos, 2 past 90 days. I have cylence and ultra boss, both have worked for me, but which one is safe for preggos, and what is the dosage for goaties? thanks!!!
  15. Health & Wellness
    Hi! I'm new here but I was wondering if anyone could possibly help me out with this. My goats have had lice for a couple of years now, but it hasn't been as bad as it is now. I do realize I probably should have taken care of this earlier, but we just never got to it. We just had kids and the...
  16. Parasites
    So as a newer goat owner, I am finally having to battle lice.... Its disgusting, all 10 goats/kids have them! So I went to the store today and found some Python dust. Before I am to go ahead and treat, does anyone have any advice or tips on using it? I was planning to first dust each...
  17. Health & Wellness
    Help please, I need advice! @Mariarose,@toth boer goats,@ anyone My doe Sybil has lice. I noticed her itching the other day but didn't think much of it. This morning she was really chewing on herself so I took her outside for a better look and she has lice. She's probably 21/2 to 3 months...
  18. Health & Wellness
    ...To "dust" a goat. Looks like we have external parasites. So we cleaned out the stall really well and I dusted it with Python dust. However, how do I dust the goats? Does it go all over them? Or just down the back? Do I work it in to the skin? Is it a problem for milking later in the day?
  19. New Member Introductions
    hi, I am kinda new to goats. I used to show when I was younger but didnt learn a ton about illnesses. I rescued 4 goats from a friend who knew nothing about them (she had them 2 years never trimmed feet, if this gives you an idea). I have had them about 3 months and have had to rehabilitate them...
  20. Health & Wellness
    I've read through some previous posts but am still confused and feel so badly about our goat kids, they are 6 weeks old. I posted before because when we got them, they had lice (I'm almost positive they were sucking lice, looked just like pics). So I was treating them weekly with Python...
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