Coughing goat..need advice

[bheila]

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I'm curious how the vet determined it was allergies.
I have a friend who also has a coughing goat but also wheezes when she coughs. She doesn't do this consistantly just off and on. She's wormed her for lungworms and that hasn't seemed to help. She also treated her with LA200 incase of infection and that didn't seem to help either.

 

[PotterWatch]

I have a goat who tends to cough. We wormed her after we got her and it really seemed to help so I assumed it was lungworm. She went back to the breeder we bought her from for 2wks to be rebred and came back coughing again. I just wormed (Ivercare), her again a couple weeks ago and I rarely hear her cough now. I do wonder if I need to do another round of worming though since she still does cough a little bit.

 

[RockyToggRanch]

Is the wormer a specific "goat" wormer? I see very little goat merchandise in TSC. Where would I find it? I see horse wormers and cattle wormers.

How often should they be wormed?

 

[ilroost]

Eprinex is a cattle wormer and is easy to use it is a pour on. Sorry i dont have time to look up the right dosage as i am off to work will be gone until fri I can look it up then for you

 

[Chatychick]

I use 3 cc's per 40 lbs of goat and give it orally and I also use horse wormers too just to get the tape worms. Yes Potter I would worm her again and again in 10 days...

 

[RockyToggRanch]

Okay, I found safeguard dairy cattle wormer pellets. It lists lungworms. Is there any reason I shouldn't try this? Same dosage per weight as cattle? I'm guessing the toggs are about 100 lbs each.

Should I use the same wormer in 10 days or something else?

 

[zatsdeb]

our vet told us not to use safeguard. we get the liquid from him, it is much better. you can research online, ask miss prissy also, she has goats and is pretty goat-savey!

 

[redhen]

following this...i need to worm mine this spring and i dont know what to use..

 

[RockyToggRanch]

I didn't really want to wait til the vet comes out for the horses spring visit. I was hoping I could handle the simple things like worming without a vet. The girl at TSC showed me 2 goat wormers, but they were only listing intestinal worms.

 

[ksacres]

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Get Ivermectin, it's a cattle wormer. Safe for all life stages of goat. Effective against a wide range of parasites.

We inject it (now), but most people give it orally.