Goat worming question
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goatboy1973
True BYH Addict
Tobacco is an old farmer's dewormer. My grandfather would feed our Tennessee Walking Horse a small brick of the old school plug-type tobacco that you had to cut a piece off to chew it. It was basically chewing tobacco put into a press and soaked with molasses. It was fairly hard. Our horse loved it. The thing about using tobacco as a dewormer is that tobacco has a natural chemical in it called Nicotinamide in it, this is where the Nicotine comes from but you would need to give such a high dose of Nicotinamide that it would be toxic to the internal parasites as well the animal being fed the tobacco. Basically, to give enough tobacco to kill the worms effectively, would nearly kill the goat, sheep, horse...etc. I got this info from a study I read.
M.L. McKnight
Overrun with beasties
Tobacco is an old farmer's dewormer. My grandfather would feed our Tennessee Walking Horse a small brick of the old school plug-type tobacco that you had to cut a piece off to chew it. It was basically chewing tobacco put into a press and soaked with molasses. It was fairly hard. Our horse loved it. The thing about using tobacco as a dewormer is that tobacco has a natural chemical in it called Nicotinamide in it, this is where the Nicotine comes from but you would need to give such a high dose of Nicotinamide that it would be toxic to the internal parasites as well the animal being fed the tobacco. Basically, to give enough tobacco to kill the worms effectively, would nearly kill the goat, sheep, horse...etc. I got this info from a study I read.
I have used tobacco for a long time and it works.
Pearce Pastures
Barn Babe
Safeguard is a fairly "safe" dewormer but its effectiveness has waned greatly due to poor worming practices. It is really important to make sure you need to treat and then determine what you need to treat. Goats hosts a wide variety of parasites and they are not all treated in the same way. Unless your goat has tapeworms, you are probably wasting you money on Safeguard and if your goats do have a different parasite, they will still have that parasite after treatment.
What type of parasite are you treating for?
What type of parasite are you treating for?
