Essential CD & T give IM to 18 goats/THANKS KIM

[DonnaBelle]

I have been following Roll Farms advice and giving my goats their yearly Essential CD & T shot IM in the hip area.

Everyone got their yearly shot yesterday, so they are all on the same schedule.

This is the way Kim does it and I have found it's so easy. I use a l/2 inch 20 gauge needle and shoot at a 45 degree angle, it's so much easier than SQ.

I have not had any knots either!!

Thank's Kim, for your great advice!!

DonnaBelle

 

[Pearce Pastures]

So this is IM instead? I have only ever done SQ. Would you pretty please repost her advice or a link to it. I had a doe with a knot this year and it was driving me crazy. I kept massaging it and it is gone now but it would be nice to not have it be an issue.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Why IM? I've always given it SubQ and none has gotten a lump afterward and never had any issue. Just wondering why IM?

 

[marlowmanor]

We always give our CDT shots IM. Much easier. The first SQ shot we did was for treatment of mites, and it took us a bit to figure out how to do it. Definitely prefer IM shots.

 

[SheepGirl]

Don't do IM on meat animals unless you have to. It bruises the carcass and it has to be cut out which lowers the carcass value.

You can do IM for dairy animals, but I would recommend you do SQ for meat animals.

eta: If you have to do IM on a meat animal, do it in the neck where the meat isn't worth as much. NEVER do it in the leg or loin where the meat is worth more.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

But wouldn't you want to avoid giving a vaccination close to butchering time? Seems like it would be a waste of a vaccine

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

But wouldn't you want to avoid giving a vaccination close to butchering time? Seems like it would be a waste of a vaccine

And for certain things you have a withdraw time.

 

[SheepGirl]

I know this says for beef, but it can be applied to sheep and goats, too

http://pubstorage.sdstate.edu/AgBio_Publications/articles/ExEx11003.pdf

 

[DonnaBelle]

Well, my goats are Nubian dairy goats, and I have butchered three wethers at 90 lbs. and the butcher never said anything to me about the meat at the injection sites being bad or needing to be cut out. They were give a CD &T shot at about 10 days of age at the time I disbudded them. They were butchered at 8 months of age, and approximately 90 to 100 lbs on the hoof.

What I did yesterday:

I squirted alcohol on the injection site, gave an injection of Essential CD & T, ordered from Jeffers Vet Supply. 2 cc. per goat.

20 gauge, l/2 in. needle size.

I always use disposable needles and syringes. One per goat.

Inject in the hip, at a slight angle (45 degrees) while Dh holds the goat in a corner of the barn. We put them all in one side of the barn, take them through a gate to the other side, inject them and then kick them outside. That way, we know we got them all.

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy as my 5 year old granddaughter says.

P.S. as I said, I got this from Kim Rolls, Rolls Farms, she forgot more about goats than I'll ever know....

DonnaBelle

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

@DonnaBelle

Not saying you or Rolls is wrong at all. Just asking as to what the reasoning is. I know yours if because Rolls helped you out and told you that but I am wondering about her reasoning. That's all.