Yes, frequent injections in the same area can become irritated. Its best to find a few places to inject and rotate those. Poor guy, glad he's done with that part any way. Hopefully he will continue to improve..Good job!
We haven't been giving garlic but we just got some yesterday. No way he will eat it (he is VERY picky) so I'll have to figure out a way to drench it.
1. Whole cloves (goats take them as treats) 2. Whole cloves coated in molasses or honey 3. Suggestion #1 but tossed with feed 4. Suggestion #2 but tossed with feed 5. Crushed or chopped garlic in feed 6. Suggestion #2 but crushed or chopped in feed 7. Crushed garlic mixed with a teaspoon of applesauce 8. Crushed garlic mixed with a teaspoon of mashed bananas 9. Crushed garlic mixed with a teaspoon of pumpkin puree 10. Suggestion #7, #8, or #9 with Slippery Elm Powder added 11. Crushed garlic mixed with a bit of flaxseed meal and molasses to form a ball 12. Suggestion #11 can be shoved into the mouth of a goat a few times forcefully if they don't like it at first 13. Suggestion #11 can also be tossed into feed, or broken up slightly, then mixed with feed. 14. Garlic can be put into a peanut hull 15. Take a banana slice about an inch thick, scoop out the middle leaving a bit on the bottom, stick the clove in (or crushed garlic) cover the top, and offer to the goat or forcefully put into the goats mouth until they realize it is tasty. In emergency (non-regular) situations 16. Crushed finely and mixed with water to drench carefully 17. Crushed finely and mixed with juice (carrot, fruit) to drench carefully 18. Crushed finely and mixed with olive oil to drench carefully or feed from a spoon
Welp. The meadowmist Baermann fecal results came back. Results said "There was a very high number of lungworm larvae of both species in the Baermann test." So that would explain a lot. He wasn't coughing a ton and had a clean standard fecal a month ago. Clearly the lungworms have been proliferating for a while. What treatment would you recommend? Ivermectin? We have LOH parasite formula. @happybleats @ksalvagno @toth boer goats @NigerianDwarfOwner707 @goathiker
This will depend if you want to go natural or not. With herbs you will need to go acute dosing Ivomec does target lung worm.
Okay we gave the ivermectin. Repeat in 10 days? I tried giving him a dose of LOH parasite formula in some peanut butter but he spit out the part that had the herbs in it. So I guess I'll be drenching that...I figured since it reduced the lungworm numbers before (a year ago which is the last time we got a baermann fecal on him) then it wouldn't hurt. He's still getting 4 cloves a day of garlic. I agree we should get more of the goats tested.
When should we get another fecal to see if the ivermectin worked? Should I keep giving him vitamin C daily if he is getting 4 cloves a day of garlic?
Should I keep giving him vitamin C daily if he is getting 4 cloves a day of garlic? Also, when should I stop the garlic? @NigerianDwarfOwner707