[LuluGoaties]

Well I have made a couple of posts about wormers as my preggo girls had high worm loads, pale famachas and clumpy poo.
I ended up giving them 3 drops of oregano oil morning and evening yesterday. Already their poo is getting back to normal and they’ve perked up!
I’ll be continuing with it for a while, but it’s worked wonders already!!
Just sharing in case anyone else is looking for a good idea for a natural wormer. I’ll post a pic of the bottle later.
👍🏻😄

 

[Boer Mama]

That’s great news you are seeing improvement so quickly!
I usually try about 3 days in a row for getting an issue taken care of, and then weekly as a preventative.
Your silly goats don’t like orange peels tho 😜
But you could also use orange oil EO…
Oregano oil is very hot so be careful not to overdo it 😊

 

[LuluGoaties]

Yes thank you! I’ll do that definitely! Ill try buy some orange oil next time I’m in town
🍊 I’m so mad at them!! When they kid I’ll introduce babies to orange peels EARLY so hopefully they’ll eat them at least 😂
Yes I forgot to say it’s not neat oregano. Olive oil base I think.
I have not used drugs once for the goats since we got them! I am so happy I found oregano!
I WISH they’d eat orange peels tho.. sigh. 🤦🏻‍♀️

 

[Dews]

How much orange oil do you give and is it supposed to take care of worms?

 

[Boer Mama]

Some members give orange EO as a preventative, I believe just 1 drop a week. Along with some other deworming herbs.
@happybleats has a whole drench recipe.

My babies don’t start eating orange peel chips until they are older. Mostly since my moms mob me for them and don’t give the babies a chance to think it over. Lol
I am going to try to introduce them to my kids 4H goats while they are younger. Along with the oils helping with parasites, the vitamin c is a good health boost and I believe the citric acid will help prevent UC in the wethers.

Don’t give up on introducing them to your older goats! Try breaking into small pieces and mixing in with their feed… I got my new Buck to start taking them and he was a very hands off old boy set in his ways when he got here. Now he takes them from my hands…

 

[LuluGoaties]

Yes I’ll persevere! I love oranges so I’ll always have peels!!

 

[lottsagoats1]

I dice the orange peels and mix them with their beet pulp. I add hot water, cover and let it steam until cool, mix with their feed. They all eat the peels that way.

I also add dried oregano to their feed. Not sure about worms, but it helps with disease prevention. And...it makes the barn smell like an Italian restaurant! LOL.

 

[Boer Mama]

I really want to grow a bunch of oregano so I have it on hand fresh and then dried for winter for the goats. Maybe this year it’ll happen! 🍀🍀🍀

 

[NigerianNewbie]

I really want to grow a bunch of oregano so I have it on hand fresh and then dried for winter for the goats. Maybe this year it’ll happen! 🍀🍀🍀

Heads up, once established oregano grows very similar to mint and spreads quite a bit. Out of necessity, discovered Oregano grows well as a container plant and can be divided into additional plantings each spring. Started the oregano here from a bunch pulled from an existing plant belonging to a friend a couple of years ago. Planted it into one of the garden boxes early that spring, and for reasons beyond explanation, it grew extremely rapidly during the fall and was green (ground level short) all winter. That small bunch of oregano became an expansive 2' x 1 1/2' ground covering by the following spring and size alone meant it had to be relocated. I can pick the leaves all year round, though during the warm weather can harvest stems about 3" - 5" long.

This picture was taken 03/02/23 and the Oregano is in the first container on the bottom. Followed by Sage, Thyme, Cat Nip, and Echinacea. These herbs grow as perennials in NC, and the Oregano, Sage and Thyme were technically appearing to be an evergreen type plant because they don't die back in the winter.

 

[Boer Mama]

@NigerianNewbie - what plant zone are you?
That’s really good information… altho I kind of want it to get out of hand so the bees have food and I’ll have enough for my herd 😆

 

[NigerianNewbie]

@NigerianNewbie - what plant zone are you?
That’s really good information… altho I kind of want it to get out of hand so the bees have food and I’ll have enough for my herd 😆

Planting zone 7 (Triad triangle area of central NC) and Region 9 Mid Atlantic weather zone

Oregano can and will get out of hand, it's proven to me it's an extremely hardy plant. It has charming lilac colored flowers and several insects seem to take nectar from the few flower stems I allow to bloom out. I'm sort of allowing it to get out of hand here as I added a few plants directly into the bare ground last spring and am treating it as a ground cover.

If you were closer, I would send you a bunch yanked from the plantings here. There are differences other than plant species you might find interesting. A good strong smell from the plant is a great indicator of the potency and/or flavor. I had a "store bought" Oregano already planted and was given a planting of the Oregano pictured above a couple of weeks later. Somewhere I read about smelling the plants, and sure enough, the store bought plant had hardly any scent and the shared plant left no doubt it was favorable/strong. So, I had to try some leaves sprinkled on a couple of tomato sandwiches and there was defiantly a difference in taste between these 2 Greek Oregano plants. Elevated the tomato to a new level, and now I am hooked onto sprinkling salt, pepper and Oregano onto tomato sandwiches. Yum!

 

[Boer Mama]

Sounds delicious @NigerianNewbie … and don’t worry, I wasn’t going to let the goats have it all to themselves 😉

 

[toth boer goats]

😁😉

 

[LuluGoaties]

😁😋😂