Above What EPG for Barber Pole to Take Action?

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.

 

Okay so I checked their famacha and it's paler than I've seen. 3s maybe. I'm rather confused and I don't really know where to go from here. @NigerianDwarfOwner707 I think I need your herbal advice.

I've been giving them LOH parasite formula and it's been taking care of Barber poles for me just fine. I haven't done a fecal in quite a while because every time I did it their numbers were low, so I don't know how long it's been going on. I give them the herbs diligently weekly along with garlic and every time it rains. In addition they have been eating a lot of fallen oak leaves so I figured the tannins would be helping them out. I just don't really know where to go from here. And why did it used to work and now suddenly isn't? I have been keeping the herbs in a small plastic container so maybe they are going stale in the not 100% air tight dish. I can't believe it would be that alone.

I'm going to treat them with acute doses so hopefully that will take care of the current problem. Should I give them Red Cell too? They aren't acting off. Their appetites are good. Bella's coat looks nice. Prim's is a little rough, but I attributed that to minerals, but maybe it's not.

I should probably mention that I believe they are both pregnant if that changes your advice at all.

So basically, my question is what should I do about prevention since what I am doing clearly isn't working.

 

So what frequency would you recommend for maintenance?

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.

 

I know you're not being rude. I just wanted to let you know where I stand.

I think I will try to treat Prim naturally too because I don't actually have any chemical wormers on hand and I'd kind of like to know if it works on a count as high as hers. I'll keep a close eye on her famacha while I'm treating her.

For the future, what frequency for prevention would you recommend using the herbs?

 

Thanks you guys. I don't know how I could do this without you.

 

Question: Should the fecal done after tens days be done ten days from the end of the treatment or...?

 

@NigerianDwarfOwner707 ?

 

Okay, will do!

 

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.