Thanks for the note. Here are the animals that are doing the best at this time.

• Choctaw Chick – age 10 months old never been wormed and a daughter of Susie Q, highly worm resistant

• Ladybug – age 23 months and never been wormed

• Little Red – age 22 months and never been wormed

• Looking Good – age 11 months and never been wormed

• Lucille – age 23 months and never been wormed

• Mascott – age nearly 3 years and wormed one time in 24 months

• Miss Mandy – age 23 months and never been wormed

• Painted Diva – age nearly 3 years and never been wormed (we have only kept records for 2 years)

• Poppy – age nearly 5 years and hasn’t been wormed in 17 months

• Rolling Thunder – age 11 months and never been wormed (buck)Royal Beauty – age nearly 3 years and never been wormed (we have only kept records for 2 years)

• Royal Beauty - age 3 years old and never been wormed (only records for 2 years.

• Sidekick – age 22 months and never been wormed (sister to Little Red)

• Sugarlips – age 11 months and never been wormed

• Susie Q – age nearly 3 years and wormed once in 2008 and once in 2007. (sister to Mascott)

• Tag – age 22 months and never been wormed.

• War Dancer – age 12 months and never been wormed (buck)

• White Socks – age 22 months and only wormed once.

That is 18 animals out of only 47 total that we have. That is over 38% of our current animals have shown strong resistance to the stomach or barber pole worm, the most deadly.  That is 13 that absolutely have never been wormed in their life. This has been amazing to us and we are excited to see how they do as kidding season is here for most of them.

  We still have a long way to go to see how they do in different weather seasons and if they pass the worm resistance on to their kids. Here is a link to an article we wrote Sept, 2008 about our worm resistant status. http://www.jackmauldin.com/2008_resistance_update.htm

Here is a link to an article describing what our new maintenance program is that helps identify animals with potential worm resistance. http://www.jackmauldin.com/monthly_management.htm

You will see on our breeding schedule we are line breeding some half brothers to half sisters. Our strongest bloodlines are around EGGSfile (Xtender was a son of him and Painted Warrior is the result of Xtender being bred to an EGGSfile daughter) and War Paint (We had a grandson of War Paint and Xtender called Sukieman) we have a large number of Sukieman daughters and Rolling Thunder is a son of him. Our other young breeding buck is War Dancer, a son of Painted Warrior.

I can’t point to any specific bloodlines that I can show gave us the worm resistance. However, in the short time we have been doing this project, we do have two sisters that have shown strong worm resistance and their first kids showed the same thing for their young age. That is Mascott and Susie Q. They were out of DER Big Boy which was also the sire of Sukieman. Their dam was a daughter of Painted Warrior. We don’t try to use a lot of different bloodlines but we do want enough different genetics that we can still do breedings that are not necessarily considered line breeding. The three young does we are most excited about are Little Red, Sidekick and Miss Mandy. Little Red and Sidekick are sister that were raised in different environments during their first 3 months. They are out of Painted Warrior and a buck with Xtender and War Paint genetics. Miss Mandy is a Painted Warrior and DER Big Boy daughter.

 I believe that breeders are too focused on worming their animals and not trying to identify the ones that may not need it… PLUS a major change in management issues that can help minimize the need for worming.

 Hope this helps….