A few Vaccine Questions and a few basic Q's

[elevan]

Safeguard is very safe...safe for pregnant goats, lactating, kids, etc.
It's Valbazen that you cannot give to bred does....the label says don't use for 45 days after breeding, but I won't use it on a bred doe at all.

I don't medicate anything in their drinking water...there's just no way to be sure ea. goat gets the amount they need that way. Some may get too much, some too little medication to actually work.

I drench w/ DiMethox every 21 days in warm weather. I don't care if they like it, lol...they NEED it.

That was my thinking. I don't know if each one would drink it. With my chickens, if I have a sick one I make them do what I want them to do.

With a drench, is it something done forcefully? Or will they just take it? Do I need special equipment? This little buck will take about and oz from a bottle before he decides he's all done.

Drench basically means to give orally. Depending on the taste of what you're giving and the particular animal you may have to be forceful about it.

A "drenching gun" can be helpful if what you're giving will go through the nozzle. Jeffers sells them too. I just bought the drenching nozzle as it will attach to any luer lock syringe.

 

[Roll farms]

Drenching guns are awesome x eleventy billion!!!

You can fill it up (mine is 20 cc) and treat multiple animals (it has a stop on it so you can set it to release the meds in smaller increments) and the nozzle is long enough that you can hit the back of their throat w/out risking losing a finger or a syringe in their mouth.

DiMethox tastes nasty, they won't like it...so the further back you get it, the less chance they'll spit it all over you.