Coccidiosis is found mostly in young goats and in my experience affects them from 3 weeks until they are about 6 months old. The symptoms I see are a dark green scour, sometimes it is brownish. There is a distinctive smell to it and early in the morning before milking, if I walk up to the kids pen I can smell instantly if coccidiosis is causing a scour amongst one or many of the kids.

Coccidiosis causes a decrease in weight gain or a loss in weight and this means the goat will not be quite ready to mate as early as she should be OR she will not produce as much milk as she would have if she was heavier when her first lactation started

For a few years I was able to prevent the outbreak of any symptoms by treating all kids still on milk with Baycox (liquid gold at more than $100 per litre). Each kid was weighed every 3 weeks and given 0.8ml of Baycox per 1 kg of bodyweight so a 7kg kid was given 5.6ml Baycox. The Baycox was mixed in 100ml of milk formula and fed individually via a bottle. This was extremely successful but now I find I am unable to lift all the kids and weigh them so I only treat kids who get the scours. The results are not as good as I have 3 kids this year out of 40 who are very small for their age.

If scouring is severe, a course of Scourban can be commenced at the time of the Baycox treatment. This will stop scouring temporarily and give the Baycox time to work. Make sure you treat the kid with a full course of Scourban and don't stop giving it when the scouring stops. It should be given twice a day for 3 days. Scourban can be added to milk fed to the kid providing the kid is given it's own individual amount of milk and not fed from a huge trough with others (never a good way to rear kids anyway). I also find that the kids will usually take the Scourban directly from a syringe and appear quite disappointed when the treatment course finishes.

I've just got to ask everyone while I'm on the topic of scouring kids - don't you just love it when there's a few kids scouring and you have to get in with them. All jumping up on you with their lovely mess all plonked on your skin and clothes :)