goat pill question

[agnes_day]

a very sweet lady from this forum made up some copper bolus' for me but here is the problem..the feed store lady talked me into getting this plunger looking thing instead of a syringe to get them down their throats..well, it was too small all the way around! i took the pill and put the contents in some cherry pie filling and chicken scratch and gave it to him..do you think that will be ok? will it help him at all like that??
i have no clue at all how i am going to get the girls to take theirs because he was the smallest and with me and my son, we couldnt get his mouth open long enough to get it in!

 

[citrusdreams]

Try crushing the bolus and putting it in peanut butter. It's hard for goats to resist

 

[agnes_day]

oh good, so they dont necessarily have to be whole then?
thats what i was worried about because there was no way i was getting that pill down his throat..he was mad!

 

[bheila]

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If you only really knew her

 

[agnes_day]

 

[Chatychick]

When I bolus mine I give 1 gram per 22 lbs of goat. The boluses that you can get are for cattle weight and need to be taken apart and measured accordingly. Sometimes I use empty capsules to dose mine or a syringe thats had the end cut off and put a little probios then the rods of copper and then somemore probios gel. Squirt it in the very back and they swallow it. You dont want to ver copper them either.

 

[bheila]

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Not to worry they were measured per your instructions Chaty

 

[agnes_day]

tomorrow i am going to try to give the girls their pills..honestly, i never would have ever thought a goat would be so hard to hold down..he reared his head back and got me with his horns..he didnt mean to do it but still, after that i decided to just let him eat it with something sugary. how long will it be before their fur stops turning red? they look really odd.

 

[bheila]

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It really depends on how red your goats are. I have a doe whose hind quarters started turning red 2 months ago so I bolused her at the beginning of April. If I look at her undercoat I can see the difference in the color.

 

[agnes_day]

its the backs of their legs...its a rust color, i guess you could say.