I am pretty sure Elfin has worms. She is anemic, I can tell this by looking at her eyelids. She also seems to have lost some weight, significantly more than I expected when she stopped stealing Red's grain, and she lost some of her appetite. I have dewormer, and a drencher ordered and coming. In the meantime I have upped her grain, have put her out to graze as much as possible, she will turn her nose up at grain, but has been willing to graze, and have been giving her some molasses. The combination has been helping and she seems to have more energy today.
I think she had some when she came because all goats have worms, but then I read that the worms can go into like a hibernation state over the winter so their eggs don't get laid into the snow. It also said that nutritional deficiencies can trigger a worm population boost. I wasn't great about putting her minerals out for her. I have been better about that lately too. Hopefully the upswing continues.
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