Worming? For kids and preg doe.

We recently aquired two- four month old kids and a bred doe. All need worming i am pretty sure. Eyelids are on the pale side of just needing be wormed. We had been studyin about and almost ready to bring some goats home and these were one of those friend of a friend needs get rid of his parents animals kind of thing. Not displeased with the decision to take them just nervous is mostly it. Not wantin to do wrong by them. Anyway.... local vet does not DO fecals on farm animals and the vet we were going to use and have spoken with hasnt called me back in several days now. The goats are eatin sweet feed with some pellet mixed but not a lot of browse. They did come with both hay and feed they had been on that we are using. But i worry that a not good worm load may be causin the not eatin well along with just coming here. And the colors on the fmacha chart they are all just under the borderline eyelid color.

So. Since there are so many differing things on what to use to worm a pregnant goat.... what do we use? Ugh! This is the Confusing part.

Ivermectin is safe, and so is Safeguard. You can send a fecal off to a lab without a vet. Let me tag someone with that info. @Goat Whisperer can you provide the link to the lab that does fecals?

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Thank you! Also. Do i need to give a copper or multi vite/probiotic? They have two different minerals out. They haven’t touched either. But we know they do that as needed.

I think that this is the lab.

http://www.midamericaagresearch.net/instructions.php

As far as minerals, mine only eat ones that they like and they don't like all of them. You might try a different brand. Most goats need extra copper, you can get copper capsules and bolus them once or twice a year. Probiotics are good, but honestly I am not sure that they need them if they have a good diet. I feed some to mine on the milk stand, but I just started that last year and I don't notice any difference.