I am adding an adult doe to my herd. I have LOTS of new babies on the ground so I feel I should quarantine her and do the 3 class dewormer protocol before letting her in with the babies.
She has passed the WADDL biosecurity screen (CAE, CL Johnes serum negative). I know the limitations of those tests but I always run it on adults prior to bringing them in.
I am planning to set up an electric pen for her on the hill by my house where there is a shed she can use. If I give her the 3 different classes of dewormers, how soon one right after another do I give them? Don't want to kill her with dewormers!
Where I am proposing to set up the pen she would be able to see other goats but they'd be 1-200 ft away, will that be horrible for her?
I know this may sound crazy but I've never quarantined a new goat before. In the past I bought groups of adults who all passed the biosecurity screen, most came from people I knew personally and had faith in. I just feel like with all these new babies it is too risky even just for the parasite issue.
So burning questions are- how to go about the multiple dewormer thing, and does my quarantine setup sound humane or should I sacrifice a yearling to go in the pen with her and be her buddy?
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Also I was planning to put up the small electric pen that I have which gives her access to poop on less of an area. The shed is inside of a pasture but like I said, not really much that they eat right around the shed where I was going to pen her up, mostly bare ground. I could possibly also just keep goats in the pasture around her pen so they are right there but she can't touch them.
Well, there is no greenery up there around the shed since that is their loafing area. I guess I was thinking we are just going into our super crazy hot season and the scorching sun is going to kill most of what would be up there and they wouldn't be eating off that ground anyway since there is really no food up there...?? I can burn the bedding from the shed. Have a dry yearling I can put in there with her for company