Targeted selective supplementation with local plants cut anthelmintic use by 54 percent on Malawi goat smallholdings without hurting growth or kidding outcomes. Farmers scored each goat every two weeks with the Five Point Check and fed 250 g of Commiphora africana, Ficus ingens, or Gmelina arborea per day for five days only to borderline or sick animals. Sick goats still received albendazole, and the combination cleared parasites faster than the drug alone. Why gastrointestinal nematodes hit smallholder goats so hard Stomach and intestinal worms, known as gastrointestinal nematodes or GINs, are the largest parasitic drain on small ruminant production, and smallholder goat farming carries the worst of it. They do…