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We have had goats for nearly 13 years and always used Ivomec as an injection and it kills external parasites as well as worms. We don't drink the milk for 4 days but of late we have become infused after reading articles and posts on the 'net, particularly from the American contributors. It appears t...

Love that story Jingles. We had a girl with such enormous udders that they touched the floor and she kept tripping over them but she did milk OK and we didn't have a handy calf.

Thanks everyone for your warm welcomes. Warmer than it has been today with the wind sweeping across the flat lands - I am quite envious of the sheep in their woolly fleeces.

I am now going onto another division of ISH to ask a veterinarian-type question. Bye for now, see you there.

Hi everyone, I'm Justinian (spelt my own name wrong on the profile - must correct it) and I live with my wife in the Lincolnshire Fens on a two-acre smallholding. We have 16 goats (a mixed bag of breeds and sexes), two miniature pot-bellied pigs, three old sheep, four dogs, one cat and several scrag...