Calliopia
Ridin' The Range
So our local TSC is now carrying ivermectin in a sheep drench which is a .08% solution instead of a 1%. Does anybody have any experience with this? Is it in a better carrier to use orally vs using an injected medication off use.
I realize that both are 'off use' as one is for sheep and the other for goats. Just wondering if anyone has used both with one having better success.
My guy freakin HATES the taste of the injection stuff and I have to mix it w/ nutridrench or he thrashes and foams at the mouth and screams. (again, this boy is ALL Nubian and PURE drama queen )
The reason I am asking is that we had what we thought was lung worm going through the herd. Treating w/ Ivomec didn't seem to do anything. Switched locations and hay in case it was environmental. Nothing, still coughing. Nobody was temping or lethargic though so the vet still wasn't thinking pneumonia. Suggested that it might have been an environmental cause that was lingering a while.
A friend lost their farm to foreclosure and we took in 2 of their goats. Nice healthy, nothing wrong with them. 1 immediately went elsewhere to be a companion for a doe that was going to have her bucklings pulled soon and she's doing fine. The one that stayed w/ me has started coughing. Crap! What ever it is moved with us and is contagious. (Wouldn't have introduced the doe but it was a perfect storm. Owner in tears, (Please don't send them to auction), County installing a sewer line so the fence is down so everybody is cooped up in a temp electric pen, nowhere else to put her and I get her the 2 days before the bank sale. It's always an adventure.
I called our vet and he suggested antibiotics in case it was something contagious but not terribly virile since these guys weren't temping. I said I want Draxxin since I can't dose one of my does twice a day. She's a rescue and I'm lucky if I can catch her for her hoof trimming. I dosed everybody w/ Draxxin and did the bose shots and B for my two that had a hard winter and are still not in the best condition - Older Nubians and one was bred hard before I got her and then was kicked in the head by a horse this year. Oy.
So... rounded up everybody including the hermit and while I have em all in lock down I'm doing the once over. The OLD Nubian is anemic. CRAP! Now I'm back to lungworm? I'm afraid I'm going to have to just load her up and bring her in for a full on physical but I'm also afraid I was underdosing the ivomec since I was doing it at twice the dosage instead of 4 times.
Keeping them all on Draxxin because well, I just dosed last night and there's not much to do about it and I figure it won't hurt anyway. If there is a secondary infection it should help.
The hermit, my boy and the new doe are FINE except for the cough. Healthy, shiny coats, lovely.
The two older nubians are a mess. Ragged coats, coughing like crazy, but good appetites and temperament. No temperatures either. Maybe mildly elevated but still in normal. It depends on what time of day I get them.
So I'm thinking: Stick w/ the Draxxin. Hit again this week (today) w/ a doubled ivomec dosage and B and Red Cell. Then maybe Mon - Wed of next week depending on how they are doing do a tripled dosage and keep up w/ B and Red Cell. Then the week after do a quadrupled dose.
Am I insane? Do I need to just smack them down w/ a HUGE dose? Everybody has a chance of being bred due to this fence thing that has gone on longer than I wanted so Valbazan is out. I was also going to throw Safeguard in the mix and see if that helps. Right now I feel like I'm peeing into the ocean and expecting to see green. And my vet means well but doesn't have goats and I've had my guys since Novemeber of last year. I got the old one through a fractured face though so I can't be doing too badly (L).
Anyway... enough ranting on. Any suggestions?
I realize that both are 'off use' as one is for sheep and the other for goats. Just wondering if anyone has used both with one having better success.
My guy freakin HATES the taste of the injection stuff and I have to mix it w/ nutridrench or he thrashes and foams at the mouth and screams. (again, this boy is ALL Nubian and PURE drama queen )
The reason I am asking is that we had what we thought was lung worm going through the herd. Treating w/ Ivomec didn't seem to do anything. Switched locations and hay in case it was environmental. Nothing, still coughing. Nobody was temping or lethargic though so the vet still wasn't thinking pneumonia. Suggested that it might have been an environmental cause that was lingering a while.
A friend lost their farm to foreclosure and we took in 2 of their goats. Nice healthy, nothing wrong with them. 1 immediately went elsewhere to be a companion for a doe that was going to have her bucklings pulled soon and she's doing fine. The one that stayed w/ me has started coughing. Crap! What ever it is moved with us and is contagious. (Wouldn't have introduced the doe but it was a perfect storm. Owner in tears, (Please don't send them to auction), County installing a sewer line so the fence is down so everybody is cooped up in a temp electric pen, nowhere else to put her and I get her the 2 days before the bank sale. It's always an adventure.
I called our vet and he suggested antibiotics in case it was something contagious but not terribly virile since these guys weren't temping. I said I want Draxxin since I can't dose one of my does twice a day. She's a rescue and I'm lucky if I can catch her for her hoof trimming. I dosed everybody w/ Draxxin and did the bose shots and B for my two that had a hard winter and are still not in the best condition - Older Nubians and one was bred hard before I got her and then was kicked in the head by a horse this year. Oy.
So... rounded up everybody including the hermit and while I have em all in lock down I'm doing the once over. The OLD Nubian is anemic. CRAP! Now I'm back to lungworm? I'm afraid I'm going to have to just load her up and bring her in for a full on physical but I'm also afraid I was underdosing the ivomec since I was doing it at twice the dosage instead of 4 times.
Keeping them all on Draxxin because well, I just dosed last night and there's not much to do about it and I figure it won't hurt anyway. If there is a secondary infection it should help.
The hermit, my boy and the new doe are FINE except for the cough. Healthy, shiny coats, lovely.
The two older nubians are a mess. Ragged coats, coughing like crazy, but good appetites and temperament. No temperatures either. Maybe mildly elevated but still in normal. It depends on what time of day I get them.
So I'm thinking: Stick w/ the Draxxin. Hit again this week (today) w/ a doubled ivomec dosage and B and Red Cell. Then maybe Mon - Wed of next week depending on how they are doing do a tripled dosage and keep up w/ B and Red Cell. Then the week after do a quadrupled dose.
Am I insane? Do I need to just smack them down w/ a HUGE dose? Everybody has a chance of being bred due to this fence thing that has gone on longer than I wanted so Valbazan is out. I was also going to throw Safeguard in the mix and see if that helps. Right now I feel like I'm peeing into the ocean and expecting to see green. And my vet means well but doesn't have goats and I've had my guys since Novemeber of last year. I got the old one through a fractured face though so I can't be doing too badly (L).
Anyway... enough ranting on. Any suggestions?
