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What was she wormed with? Wazine-17 is only good for adult round worms so if you miss the follow-up a new crop will hatch out.
And by people's own admission DE looses it's effectiveness when wet and I have never seen an intestinal tract yet that was dry.
Many times it takes a good chemical wormer to get the numbers down for natural controls to take over.
I generally do mine once a year with Ivermectin, in the fall just beore winter sets in.
Another thing to check would be her crop. seperate her out this evening with no feed or water and see if her crop empties overnight. If it doesn't she could have an impacted crop. One more thing to do is to smell her breath, it should not smell like soured grain, which is nasty smelling. Often times sour crop pops up when they have an impacted crop.
OK, I had to look up online where the crop is. How do you tell if it is impacted? Also, I have only had her for a little over 3 weeks so I didn't have her when she was wormed. Someone else mentioned it so I called the previous owner, who is also my farrier and has been for years and asked him if he had ever wormed her and he said yes about 3 months ago but I didn't ask with what. Don't notice a bad smell from her breath but she doesn't really let me smell it well. We haven't picked them up much.
Ugh...so not prepared, I don't have enough Coop spots for everyone! Ahhhhhhh....I gues its into the dog cage with the poor girl.
I really appreciate your input. Have learned so much from this site.
Tara
