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Bleeps & Bleats Dairy Goats, Winnsboro, TX (2026)

05/26/2026

The countdown to breeding season is on! 🗓️
Seeing how these bucks are looking right now makes it impossible not to dream about the next generation. Just a few more months until the craziness begins and the stinky boys take over! 🐐✨

Who else is finalizing their breeding plans?

04/15/2026

Barber Pole Worm in Sheep & Goats — ARTICLE 1

What Barber Pole Worm Actually Is

Most people think of worms as a digestion problem.

Something that causes diarrhea.
Something that lives in the gut.
Something you “clean out.”

That’s not what this is.

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This Is Not a Gut Problem

The Barber Pole Worm — Haemonchus contortus — does not primarily damage the digestive system.

It doesn’t work by irritating the intestines.
It doesn’t need to.

It feeds on blood.

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Where the Name Comes From

If you’ve ever seen one, the name makes sense immediately.

The worm has a distinct twisted appearance:
• a red stripe (blood-filled intestine)
• wrapped around a white reproductive tract

It looks like an old-fashioned barber pole.

That visual isn’t just interesting—it’s a clue.

This is a parasite built around blood feeding and reproduction.

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What It Actually Does

This parasite attaches to the lining of the abomasum (the true stomach) and feeds directly from blood vessels.

Not a little.

Continuously.

Each worm removes a small amount.
But animals don’t carry just one.

They carry:
• dozens
• hundreds
• sometimes thousands

So what you’re seeing is a slow, steady loss of blood happening inside the animal.

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Why That Matters

Most of you know how important blood is:

It carries:
• oxygen
• protein
• nutrients

So when blood is lost, multiple systems start to fail at the same time.

This is why Barber Pole Worm doesn’t look like a typical parasite problem.

You often don’t see explosive diarrhea like you would expect with a typical gut parasite.

You see:
• pale eyelids
• weakness
• bottle jaw (fluid swelling under the jaw)
• animals that just don’t keep up

And sometimes…

You see nothing at all—until it’s too late.

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This Is the Pattern

This is where people get misled.

They’re trained to look for:
• scours
• rough hair coats
• visible illness

But this parasite is designed to work quietly.

By the time you see the problem:

It’s already been happening for weeks.

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Why It’s So Dangerous

Because it doesn’t announce itself.

It doesn’t create obvious early warning signs.

It creates progressive loss:
• less blood
• less oxygen delivery
• less resilience

Until the animal reaches a point where it can’t compensate anymore.

And then it crashes.

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What This Changes

If you understand this one thing:

You are not dealing with a “digestive issue”.
You are managing blood loss.

Everything else in this series will make more sense.
• Why some animals look fine… until they don’t
• Why lambs and kids crash so fast
• Why timing matters more than reaction
• Why some tools work—and others seem to fail

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System-Level Takeaway

You’re not treating a problem—you’re managing a system.

And in this system:
• the parasite removes blood
• the animal tries to compensate
• and your management determines how long that balance holds

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Next Article

Now that you understand what it is, we need to understand how it keeps happening.

Because nothing about this parasite is random.

In the next article, we’ll break down the lifecycle—the engine behind everything—and why the environment matters just as much as the animal.

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Good livestock management isn’t about always having the right answer — it’s about learning how to think when the answer isn’t obvious yet.

03/31/2026

Introducing our newest Nubian herd sire!

*B WOEST-HOEVE RE CRECSENDO

Cresendos dam is WOEST-HOEVE AA ROXY 6*M who is the 2018 national seventh Place Two-year-old and Roxy appraised
88 VEW as a two year old. Cresendos maternal granddam is WOEST-HOEVE FM APEX 2019 ADGA National Show 9th place Yearling Milker, 2022 ADGA National Show 6th place 4 Year Old and 2023 ADGA National Show 15th place 5 & 6 Year Old!
Cresendos maternal grandsire is CHEROKEE ROSE CAPTAIN AHAB. Let's now focus on crescendos sires side, his paternal grandsire is the one and only SGCH Kastdemur's Most Wanted EX91 EEE, 2016 ADGA National Premier Sire!!! His sires dam is WOEST-HOEVE CM MIRIAM the 2022 national 1st! place two-year-old (2nd udder) and the 2023 6th Place 3-year-old (3rd udder). He's also the great grandson of SGCH Iron Owl Bluebeard EX92 EEEE & ++*B SCH ALIZE CHARLESTON CHEW 90EEV *ELITE*, 3x NationalPremier sire and also sire of the
2017 National Champion and the 2018 & 2019 National Champion!!!!
(- description credits to Bella Blanco)

SS: Kastdemur's Most Wanted
S: Woest-Hoeve MMW Elijah
SD: Woest-Hoeve CM Miriam

WOEST-HOEVE RE CRECSENDO

DS: Cherokee Rose Captain Ahab
D: Woest-Hoeve AA Roxy
DD: Woest-Hoeve FM Apex

I am BEYOND excited to have this buck in my herd and cannot wait to use him! Thank you so much Bella with INB Acres
I will need to take some updated pictures, as Crecsendo is Much bigger than this pic, but boy is he rutty!

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