What are the worms in my goat’s head - or udder or leg or ….
Does this information apply to meningeal worm or deer worm?.
Worms in Goats: Symptoms of an overload.
Does this mean we just give up and watch our goats die?.
Just as overuse of antibiotics has led to antimicrobial resistance, overuse of dewormers has led to dewormer resistance, which means worms survive exposure to dewormers.Īs an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Unfortunately, in both cases, overuse of the drugs has led to resistance. No one ever needs to die from an infection because we had invented so many great antibiotics. This is a lot like the thinking about infectious disease 50 years ago. This is a major shift in thinking from the 1990s when everyone thought that no one ever needed to lose another goat to internal parasites because we had so many great new drugs available. That means your goat has worms, and it’s okay. As one vet said to me years ago, you will never get to zero parasites in an animal that eats off the ground. The prevalence of gastrointestinal parasites in goats is pretty much 100% unless your goat has been living in a sterile room its entire life. Unfortunately, nothing online ever dies, so there is still tons of old information out there, which actually makes the problems worse. Since I bought my first goats in 2002, nothing has changed more than the diagnosis and treatment of worms in goats.
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