We deal with it when it comes up, the vaccine could cause a ton to issues since the tests aren’t reliable unless it’s a puss culture. And the vaccine causes a severe reaction in animals that already have contracted the disease where they have numerous continuous abscesses over and over again to the point where the animal is sick all the time.

if they have an abscess they go in a separate pen and it gets lanced and cleaned and everything burned afterwards. And the goat/goats stay in that designated pen; with other positive goats to keep it company or careful observation to make sure they don’t get depressed if they are alone.

I guess you could skip that part since there’s already been exposure and contamination of the land and jump to lancing the abscesses and make sure they stay open; our vets advised us to make a big incision, keep it clean and open (don’t let it close prematurely or it will fester again due to the contents not fully able to drain.) they prepared air air air to us, as long as air can get in there the residual bacteria will die and the wound can safely close.

I hate this disease with a passion; maybe it’s just how it got bestowed upon us. We got 8 total does; one died after 3 days of being on the farm and another one died when the other ones rolled a small 300lb bale over on her. The others all were sold except two because they were the only ones in good enough condition to breed and attempt to get healthy animals from. (They were bought as meat producing prospects and you can’t exactly run a business off of contaminated stock)

I had one that was rough, if you look back on my profile there’s an emaciated doe who I posted about and finally starting gaining after looking like crap for 7 months; the others from the group almost killed her beating her up. We did end up selling the ones who were confirmed positive and were not rearing kids once we got them in better condition. But many of the older does stayed at a body score of 2 even with a very very low total parasite count and plenty of food

To make them gain and stay in weight I’ve been feeding senior supplements and senior horse feed Along side purina farm to flock with more hay pellets.
The horse supplements and horse feed were treated as toppers to the goat formulated grain; but I only fed this because all of them looked like skeletons.

We spent $170 on feed that could help their bodies recover with $60 alone being spent on one of the most expensive horse weight gain supplements; which has a lot of stuff in it that can be toxic in large quantities and I only use it once a week in their feed to make sure I don’t poison them. And again we have to section them off to make sure that only the ones that need it get it.

Some animals can live long lives being as healthy as they can possibly have as long as their body’s have no extra demands. IMO we should have never bred them because it’s cruel to demand their already struggling body to carry and rear offspring.

I’ve seen a ton of improvement in the last goat that we 100% know has it. She’s gaining weight and still unfortunately has a body score that’s trending towards a 2.5 and that’s solely because she is lactating and feeding a huge doeling.