Ivomec Plus for barberpoles

[Griffin's Ark]

So, anyway...ya...you might have come as close as you could to doing something like this if you bolused at juuuuust the right time this year. Whether you'll ever hit that sweet spot again is anybody's guess, but if you did what I suspect you did this year...kudos.

I did it last year in one paddock and missed it this year. The amount of money I saved on anthelmintics like Ivermec, Cydectin and Safeguard was astounding. Though this year was a bit more wet than last year, I was obviously about 3 weeks late with the boluses. My thought for next year is; two weeks after the first rain in March the goats get bolused with 2 grams. Any kid without an active rumen though will need to get a regular dewormer (ie most bottle babies).

 

[20kidsonhill]

We only bolused our adult goats, We just poured out half the copper rods and gave them what appeared to be half the dose. I still have the other half poured in a bag, and I need to get some more gel caps.We didn't do them all at the same time and didn't do all of them in the early spring, I should mention that. We also have out a co-op loose mineral, and the goats eat it like crazy. I feel the minerals has helped greatly, as well. We haven't always kept out mineral, often running out of it and not replacing it for a month or two, now I keep it out all the time. The co-op said they lost business when they switched from to this kind of mineral, because their biggest client is the cattle farmers, andt he cattle were eating it so fast the farmer couldn't afford to keep it out for them. I have studied the feed label and it seems to have everything in it that a good mineral should have, looking more grey than red, sulfates instead of oxides, ect......


I should also mention that we started aggresively addressing anemic goats, with less worming and more red cell and iron shots, sometimes both at the same time. I would give the doe 30cc of red cell and 4cc shot of iron 100, with a worming if I she was anemic. then I would repeat the red cell and iron shot every few days, until all signs of anemia were gone. It seemed addressing the anemia helped build up her system and set her up to fight off the worms. Otherwise we were having to reworm the same does every 32 or 3 weeks through out the summer. It seems like we have been able to break the cycle.

a gallon of red cell is a heck of a lot cheaper than most the wormers.

All these ideas we have started since reading the BYH threads, I would like to thank BYH for all the information. I know sometimes people don't agree and sometimes it gets frustraing, but it has been worth it for us.
thank YOU.

 

[cmjust0]

I did it last year in one paddock and missed it this year. The amount of money I saved on anthelmintics like Ivermec, Cydectin and Safeguard was astounding. Though this year was a bit more wet than last year, I was obviously about 3 weeks late with the boluses. My thought for next year is; two weeks after the first rain in March the goats get bolused with 2 grams. Any kid without an active rumen though will need to get a regular dewormer (ie most bottle babies).

I've read that in temperate climates, humidity is pretty much 100% down close to the soil line in pastures.. And that's year-round. It's a micro-climate, basically, and one to which the barberpole is perfectly adapted. So really no matter how hot, dry, and nasty it gets, nor how wet or dry the spring was, barberpoles are hatching out down in their little microclimate near the roots of grass and shimmying their way up to be eaten.

I've also read that a 'hay aftermath' is basically worm-free..

I've wondered how well it might work to use COWP in conjunction with a bushhog in early Spring.........