Goat Health Care & Worming Schedule
There are two schedules on this page:
HOLISTIC Health
Care, Vaccination, Worming & Schedule
"TRADITIONAL" (Chemical/Medical) Health
Care, Vaccination, Worming & Schedule
HOLISTIC Health
Care, Vaccination, Worming & Schedule
(This
is the schedule I follow, you may decide to do it differently to
fit your own situation.)
|
Kids |
Within one
hour after birth:
- Make sure the
kid receives colostrum.
- Dip umbilical
cord in 7% iodine
Day 2- Week 1 - 1 1/2:
Day 4-5:
- Give a dose
of Probios to help get rumen
going.
Week 2:
Week 3:
- Give first CD&T
vaccination (if you choose to vaccinate) (If you vaccinate,
the mother should have been vaccinated 4 weeks prior to kidding. This
provides the kids with their first CD&T "treatment").
Week 4:
- Neuter boys that are not being kept as bucks. (I use a burdizzo to do my neutering. If you band or cut to castrate your boys, you
will have to do it at the appropriate times)
Week 6:
Week
8:
- Check neutered males to make sure the burdizzo "took". If not, recastrate.
- Tattoo
- Trim
hooves
|
Adult
Bucks, Wethers, Dry Does |
WORMING (all year):
Spring:
Summer:
Fall:
- In
Selenium deficient areas give Selenium/Vitamin E (I use gel) to
breeding bucks.
- Trim
hooves
Winter:
|
Adult
Breeding Does |
WORMING (all year):
Before breeding:
5
weeks before kidding:
4
weeks before kidding:
3
weeks before due date:
- In Selenium deficient areas give Selenium/Vitamin E.
- Start adding Vitamin E to food each day.
Day
after kidding:
- Always worm the doe the day after she kids with Molly's Worm Formula 1# no matter where she is in the "cycle" -Give the Herbal Worm Formula #1 for
three days in a row)
Our pregnant does get Herbal Worm Formula
#2 in their grain once a week.; they do not get Wormwood Formula 1# while they are pregnant. |
"Traditional" Health
Care, Vaccination, Worming & Schedule
|
Kids |
Within one
hour after birth:
- Make sure the
kid receives colostrum.
- Dip umbilical
cord in 7% iodine
Day 2- Week 1- 1 1/2:
Day 4-5:
- Give a dose
of Probios to help get rumen
going.
Week 3:
- Give first CD&T
vaccination ( the mother should have been vaccinated 4 weeks prior to kidding. This
provides the kids with their first CD&T "treatment").
- Start Coccidiosis prevention treatments.
Week 4:
- Trim
hooves
- Neuter boys that are not being kept as bucks. I use a burdizzo to do our neutering. If you band or cut to castrate your boys, you
will have to do it at the appropriate times)
- Worm - Time to start
the kids on their worming schedule if using chemicals. I take a holistic approach to
parasite control and use Herbal Worm
Formula from Molly's Herbals which I actually start at week two.)
Week 6:
- Give second CD&T vaccination
- Start Coccidiosis prevention treatments if using chemicals.
- Check neutered males to make sure the burdizzo "took". If not, recastrate.
Week
8:
Week
9:
Week
12:
Treat for Coccidiosis as needed. If any or our kids under 10 months gets runny diarrhea, treat him for Coccidiosis and
also give him Probios.
Worm at other times if needed. See Worming Information. |
Adult
Bucks, Wethers, Dry Does |
Spring:
Summer:
Fall:
Winter:
Worm at other times
as needed. See Worming Information. |
Adult
Breeding Does |
Before breeding:
5
weeks before kidding:
- In Selenium deficient areas give Selenium/Vitamin E shot or gel
4
weeks before kidding:
3
weeks before due date:
- In Selenium deficient areas give Selenium/Vitamin E shot or gel
- Start adding Vitamin E to food each day.
Day
after kidding:
- Always worm the doe the day after she kids
I do not worm pregnant
does with chemical wormers unless absolutely necessary, but you may
need to worm if needed. See Worming Information.
If it is necessary, you could use Ivomec,
since this is proven safe for pregnant does. |
