I'm sure this has been answered before, but above what EPG number would you treat for baber pole? I noticed some clumpy poops from my does and did a fecal. I got 250 EPG for Bella and 400 EPG for Prim.
I would go on and treat both. Bp is nothing to plAy around with. The lower one is borderline but still no holes barred for this worm here. Get em gone asap.I'm sure this has been answered before, but above what EPG number would you treat for baber pole? I noticed some clumpy poops from my does and did a fecal. I got 250 EPG for Bella and 400 EPG for Prim.
So what frequency would you recommend for maintenance?I know the herbs say weekly is maintenance, but I have found more frequent dosing is often needed.
I would love to oils, but I must be frank with you. Our financial situation being as it is I really must try to take the cheapest options possible. Currently, treating herbaly is affordable for me, but if it becomes too expensive by adding the necessity to use more products, I may have consider switching to chemicals.Do you have access to oils? DoTerra or YL?
@NigerianDwarfOwner707 ?Question: Should the fecal done after tens days be done ten days from the end of the treatment or...?
I want to give that a try, where I mix the LOH parasite formula with the kelp. I want to try this with the two bucks. What do you think if I put two tablespoons of the herbs and 1/4 cup kelp? I then can see what it looks like at the end of the week.I use LOH parasite formula mixed in food 1-2 times a week and I also offer free choice mixed in kelp. This combo has worked great. They self medicate between treatments.
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I really think it's safe to try however you'd like (within reason). I believe the directions is 1/4 cup per 16 oz of kelp. I have mine at 1/2 cup per 16 oz because of our worm load. I worked with kristie to come up with that. Anyway, if you can do the math to your desired kelp amount, I would try it!I want to give that a try, where I mix the LOH parasite formula with the kelp. I want to try this with the two bucks. What do you think if I put two tablespoons of the herbs and 1/4 cup kelp? I then can see what it looks like at the end of the week.
That's great news! When is the last time they have had a copper bolus? You can get some anemia and rough coat from needing coper as well. Also it helps some against barberpole. So if they were needing it, it's possible that's why your count went up too.I keep forgetting update you guys. I did the fecal and Bella's count was down to 50 and Prim's was 150. I think that's pretty darn good, right? FAMACHAs still aren't what I'd like them to be. Will that take some time to correct?
I think I've decided what I am going to do going forward as well. I really hate to take the does off of the herbs. Since we are going to be milking them it just makes feel like I don't want to be giving them chemicals. That just doesn't seem right to me. I am going to try dosing them twice a week instead of once and see how that goes. Then, what I am going to do to try to offset the cost of giving more herbs is I'm going to take my bucks off of them and treat them chemically. They have always had very low fecal counts, and I think that it's possible that I won't need to treat them very often at all. Since we won't be consuming anything that comes from their bodies I feel very good about treating them chemically.