Tammy: I see. It’s more of a problem if there’s a herd.

Dr. Olcott: That’s correct. That’s correct. It’s one of those problems that multiple (unintelligible) as your numbers of animals go up.

Tammy: And what can people do to prevent that?

Dr. Olcott: Well there are other parasites.

Tammy: Oh go ahead.

Dr. Olcott: No that’s okay. Let’s talk about this one because it’s far and away the most important one.

Tammy: Okay.

Dr. Olcott: With Haemonchus control, the best technique that I’ve seen that’s come down the road in a long time is one that’s called the famacha.
0:30:00.4 Now that technique is a real simple little thing that anybody can do and you don’t need equipment or anything else to perform it. And what that means is you just press down on the upper lid of the eye to kind of push the eyeball back a little bit while at the same time you roll down the bottom eyelid and then all you’re doing is just looking at those membranes that (break in audio).

(Starts over from talking about the parasitism)

Dr. Olcott: With parasitism in goats, there are many, many parasites we can list, but the biggest most critical and fatal one is a word called Haemonchus, Haemonchus contortus. It’s commonly called the barber pole worm because it just consists of two things. Number one, it’s only the female that sucks blood. The males just live out in the dirt outside and the female is composed just of a big uterus and then a big stomach that’s filled with blood all the time, so it looks like an old-time red and white striped barber pole if you look at these worms and I’ve been around…Like I said, I’ve been in this game for a long time and back when I graduated from veterinary school, we had few drugs that were very effective for treating worms. Previous Page (17)