One Fine Acre - 2023 4H Steer Project Update

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We have some of our kids with a cough, and we have given antibiotics.
Asked our vet about the possibility of lung worms. He said that in 30 years of practicing and raising goats, he had never seen a goat with lung worms.
 

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We have some of our kids with a cough, and we have given antibiotics.
Asked our vet about the possibility of lung worms. He said that in 30 years of practicing and raising goats, he had never seen a goat with lung worms.
Funny. The 2 vets I talked to both automatically assumed my goat's coughs were from parasites. I kind of doubt that. Ivermectin didn't help, but there is a lot of resistance to it. I'll try Cydectin (moxidectin) next because that's what my vet wants me to do.
I don't know if it is related or not, but I had a cough for 2 months at the same time the goats did and it ended up turning into mild pneumonia in one of my lungs. If we had the same thing, then they need antibiotics.
But, lungworms rarely show up in fecals, so if your vet did a normal fecal, most likely he wouldn't see them if they did have them.
I really want to try the Pneumonia vaccine next year. @babsbag said her goat's coughs stopped coming in the seasons they usually did.
 
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Poor babies! Thankfully ours seem to be doing okay. Keeping a close eye on them!

I'm 'bout ready to give myself a shot of Nuflor however :he (not really doing to do it, before anyone gets in a frenzy!)

We had lungworms a few years back, we treated it with ivermectin and it went away. After that we brought in the geese and ducks and that really helped. I haven't seen a snail or slug in a long time!
 

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OK maybe this is a dumb question. Do chickens not eat snails and slugs like geese and ducks? I am not into waterfowl. But if it's that beneficial...
 

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I just realized I made my comment on the entirely wrong thread.
I was supposed to go on the thread about the coughing
The ones that were coughing were already coughing before the fair, don't want anyone to think it was related.
 

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We had lungworms a few years back, we treated it with ivermectin and it went away. After that we brought in the geese and ducks and that really helped. I haven't seen a snail or slug in a long time!

I have never seen a snail or slug on our property, either.
 

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It is my understanding that ducks are a 'Good Companion' to goats because of that reason....they eat the things that carry the parasites that affect goats....chickens may eat a few...but it is a Delicacy for a duck....chickens won't eat worms but ducks will.
 
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