Update from the farm

A few of the members of our herd didn't make it. This last summer we put in a new pasture but with all the grazing we also got a new threat. We lost our first goat Chevelle in August she was really weak and sick. We tried everything we could with her but didn't save her. The second one to go down and that didn't make it was Gingersnap she had the same symptoms as Chevelle and died several days after showing those signs. After she died we searched around and found out that we could run a fecal on the goats at home. We ran one and found elevated levels of barber pole worms. They deplete the nutrients the goats have and kill them. The third one that went down was Red he died a few days ago and was very sudden and didn't show any signs we just found him that night dead. After he died Penny and Corrigan went down and we hit both with all the wormers we could but Penny was pregnant so we called the vet in. The vet said that they had Vitamin B deficiency she gave us some medicine and gave Penny several shots but neither of them made it. We just lost Valin this afternoon it was very hard as he died in Allison's arms. We now know what was going threw our herd. You know it is a never ending battle for the animal raiser to go against worms. We just hope it gets better. We tried throwing the book at these goats and it makes you want to sell all of the goats. But as my mom said we can either learn from the bad things that happen or we can give up and sell them all.