My worm count on the goats has come back a bit high. I have always dosed them by syringe into the mouth (with sheep wormer obviously as nothing specifically for goats). The problem is with the Anglo Nubians. Not sure whether they are just more prone for some reason, but anyway, the vet we now use has been brilliant with help on this.
My previous vet practice - which I moved from cos of the botched disbudding of kids amongst other things, and they just did not seem interested/knowledgeable about goats - told me to worm them same dose as sheep, so I did. New vet, said double the dose for goats!! So, I have been underworming by the looks of it.
She has told me to inject each goat. Ideally sheep weighing scales would be ideal but we do not have those, and know no one with a portable one to borrow.
How do I work out how much to inject?!! Its 2ml per 50kg for goats. We have various AN females, some smaller than others,, a large intact male, and then .....the diddy pygmy who lives with them, who is the size of a lamb.
Any help on weights would be appreciated - thanks!! Vet seemed to think the bigger females would be 50kg?