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WORMING

last updated 02/20/2023

PLEASE NOTE:

What works for us may not work for you. This is just one way out of a million options and opinions. Over our many years of goat farming, after many MANY trial and errors, we have found what works best for our farm. Please do your own research and see what works best for your location, your herd, and your goals. We're located in the rainy Pacific Northwest and farm to meet the needs of a wet environment. You need to judge what practices best fit your farm. The Internet is a great place to gather information. But it also requires an effort on your part to judge how good that information is.  

Worming

Our goats are wormed once a month the day before, on and after a full moon with doTerra On Guard Laundry Detergent.  The detergent is free of synthetic fragrances, dyes, and toxins.  It contains surfactants, bio-originated enzymes, stabilizers from sustainable, natural-based sources (not petrochemical), and provides a unique, natural-based bio-originated enzyme blend. 

Essential oil blend of: wild orange, clove, cinnamon bark, eucalyptus, and rosemary.  

We use it at a rate of 0.5 ounces to 8 quarts mixed with warm water. 

1 oz for a 5 gal bucket

1 oz is equal to about 8 tsps

1 oz is half the cap of the laundry detergent

1 1/2 tsp for a 1 gal water container

This is safe for pregnant does and ewes. 

This method is used as a maintenance and preventative for any stomach parasites.

If you have an acute problem, then more needs to be done.

Soap has been used for centuries by farmers to help control parasites in their livestock. With the advent of modern de-wormers, old practices have died out. It is mentioned in old Agriculture books as a way to control parasites in livestock.

Joel Salatin, who is a very well known author and teaches sustainable agriculture, uses Basic H from Shaklee for his livestock. Brett Schweiger started doing research and found out that doTERRA On Guard laundry detergent has the same type of surfactants in with the added benefit of the essential oils included. Not only that, but Shaklee does not even list all the ingredients for Basic H and we know the ingredients for the On Guard soaps.

How it works.

Soap contains surfactants. These strip grease from fabric, hands, bodies, and even the greasy coating that parasites surround themselves with, to prevent being dissolved by stomach acid. So, your soap eats away at this coating. This allows the stomach acid to reach the stomach parasites and kill them. The essential oils in the soap, work to help support the animals immune system.

The full moon worming is due to 'circalunar' reproductive cycles, especially common in nematodes/helminths including parasitic species. Just like marine worms tend to form reproductive swarms as the moon approaches the fullest, terrestrial ones tend to as well. So that's the best time to wipe out adults and eggs while they're in the lower bowels to breed, so they can easily be eliminated without causing the host problems.

dōTERRA On Guard® Laundry Detergent 

https://www.doterra.com/US/en/p/doterra-on-guard-laundry-detergent

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