First my little wether got it. Two weeks later a doeling, then about the time she was through the meds, another doeling got it. I have feeders off the floor and "steps" for them to stand on so they will not stand in the bowls but it doesn't help! I'll turn around and turn back and the kids will be up in the bowls! Grrrrrrrr. I feed my girls chopped alfafa forage and it won't fit into hay feeders (falls out) so I put it into troughs for them. The kids will not stop jumping into them! The does eat on the milk stand so thankfully the kids can't get into their bowls but I give the kids some grain too while they eat and no matter how I give it to them, their feet are in the bowls. I clean poop off the floor constantly in an effort to keep it clean enough. I need some help. Advice please!!
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I agree with Patty, glad to hear everything is under control for you Julia! :D Seems to be here too - no rain for some days here as well has really helped. Girls are out in pasture and loving it. Hope your kids are having a ball in the fields too.
So happy for you that things seem to be getting better. :) May you have smooth sailing from here on!
Julia @Woody Glen Farm said:
Everything's under control right now. It stopped raining and things are drying out. No one is sick (fingers crossed) and kids are all happy and healthy (does too). Sometimes being a goat herd mom is pretty stressful but the majority of the time it's wonderful and i wouldn't trade it for the world. When I'm down to only 2 does and 2 kids at the end of this month, I'm sure I'll be missing the chaos and looking forward to next kidding season! Funny how that works, right?
Julia, I'm sorry to see that you're still struggling with this. We've had tons of rain this year too, as you've read about. It's been a hard year for getting does and kids outside on dry pasture. So far, we haven't had any cocci this year. I am going to be moving my buckling and wether into their own pen soon though, so I'll have to watch closely. I do have a bag of medicated grower feed from ADM that I got by accident, and opened before I knew it. I have been debating using that for their feed when I do move them, but I'm not sure if I should do that or just be ready with the dimethox if it does happen. Hard to have to make choices that you will only know if it was the best one in retrospect, or maybe never know at all.
I'm praying for you and your herd. Hugs.
Oh gosh Julia I'm so sorry you're having this problem. I'm worried I'm going to have the same thing since I had the one doeling come down with it. She just had her last dose of Corid today and she seems like she is back on feet doing great. I didn't dose the others because they didn't show any signs of having caught it from her, though I did have to treat another one for tapes - eww and ugh! The minute she showed signs of having it I started cleaning out everything in the barn entirely daily. Huge pain but I worried everyone else would get it if I didn't. So far that seems to have worked since no one else has gotten diarrhea or the tapes, thank goodness. I'll be taking in her fecal on Monday to get it rechecked so hopefully she is free and clear. Rain has been a huge factor here as well and it is just miserable because they can't get out and graze the pastures as much as I'd like them too. I hope the Baycox works for you. It'll be nice to hear what your results are for future reference. Good luck.
The bottles say 1.8ml per 10lbs. So that's what I've been dosing. It's pretty hard to get it exact so I try to get close. I'd be interested to know what dosage Marin is using? Hopefully she'll reply. Even though it is expensive, since you only dose once (or twice if necessary), it works out to cost little more than DiMethox or Corid.
Julia Johnson said:
I have a 10x15 barn and there are 3 does with 4 kids total in it. At one point there were 3 does with 7 kids! I recently sold one of the does and her kid and one other kid so I will soon have 2 does with one kid each. Hopefully that will be a lot better. When their kids grow up I may decide that 2 adult does is all I can handle and keep my sanity. If it just wouldn't rain all the time... We had a total last year of 75 (!!!!) inches of rain. They love it on the dry days when they can go up the hill and browse and play on the stumps and playgrounds.
Deborah Niemann-Boehle said:
I know it sounds crazy, but keeping the barn clean (when they have to stay inside) really is the key. When a more experienced person first told me that, I thought she was crazy! It's a barn! But throwing down more straw daily was the only thing that changed from one year to the next, and the problem with coccidiosis disappeared. I am wondering if your space is just too small for that to be practical? In one of my 10 X 15 stalls, I don't put more than 3 adult does with kids when they are young and inside all the time. I put only two does with kids in a 10 X 10, so basically each doe with kid has 50 square feet.
What is the dosage for the baycox?
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