[Jacob-list] Sheep & Goat Worming

[Brenda]

I strongly recommend you consider FAMACHA guidelines. http://www.scsrpc.org/SCSRPC/FAMACHA/famacha.htm. Whether or not you want to be that conservative with pharmaceuticals, it gives you a major clue if parasites are getting the upper hand.

I have been very pleased with this approach here. We also mix diatomaceous earth in with mineral salts, about 25% by volume. Our lambing % has gone up and use of pharmaceuticals has gone down. You have to get a vet to order the chart for you or go to a workshop, but you can see the basics pretty well. I have the card but just "eyeball it" (pun intended.) But I also recommend at least considering what your vet recommends too. Our vet gave me a big clue that we have lungworm issues on our farm due to slugs. Very hard to deal with, but at least we know that the first sign of respiratory distress is a call to action. We also benefitted from his advice when we had a severe outbreak of a very resistant worm. It seems like the deer are spreading it here- scattered farms get attacked at very random times when new sheep haven't been moved in. I know for sure I get deer visits in my pasture- in fact, they seem to know a thing or two about hay feeders.

Brenda
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: im rapunzil 
  To: Jacob List 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 2:18 PM
  Subject: [Jacob-list] Sheep & Goat Worming


  Hey all-
   
  Its my first time at worming my sheep and goats.  Does anyone have a schedule to share?
   
  With horses we generally worm every other month, rotating the medicines.  I keep a schedule for the whole year posted in my barn so I don't forget.
   
  Thanx!
  Cindy

  You live by writing your poems on a farm
  and call that farming.


   













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