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

[DonnaBelle]

I really hated the big knots that were on the goats after a regular CD & T shot.

Rolls told me about the Essential CD & T, it doesn't cause the knots, and the IM injection is just easier than the SQ.

My goats jump around when they are stuck with a needle, IM is much easier to give.

So there are 2 main reasons for the IM, no knots, easier to give. The Essential CD & T has the reputation of not giving knots at any site of injection, so that's what I have used for the past year.

DonnaBelle

 

[DonnaBelle]

Maybe Kim R. will see this and post her thinking here.

DonnaBelle

 

[Renegade]

I really hated the big knots that were on the goats after a regular CD & T shot.

Rolls told me about the Essential CD & T, it doesn't cause the knots, and the IM injection is just easier than the SQ.

My goats jump around when they are stuck with a needle, IM is much easier to give.

So there are 2 main reasons for the IM, no knots, easier to give. The Essential CD & T has the reputation of not giving knots at any site of injection, so that's what I have used for the past year.

DonnaBelle

If a vaccine is prone to cause a knot it will do so whether it's given SQ or IM. You may think it's not causing a knot because it's in the muscle and you're not seeing it.
We use Cavalry 9 SQ and have never had a problem.

Donna

 

[Roll farms]

No shot lumps since I switched to Essential 3+T, which can be given IM or sub q. We do it IM.

My reasoning was - since we got occasional shot lumps, and I was still dealing w/ a few CL goats, I never knew if the lumps were 'real' abscesses or shot lumps.

So we switched.

Again....to each their own and whatever works for you, groovy.

DonnaB, glad you're happy.

edited b/c I said we give it sub q in my first post because I hadn't had enough coffee yet.....

 

[poorboys]

I changed too, I was using corvexin 8 and left big bumps all the time, so I switched to esstinial 3T, Not had a limp yet, some get it SQ and some IM only because some of them are easier to give shots to than the others, As long as they are getting their booster's without problems keeps me happpy.

 

[babsbag]

I give any shot I can SubQ since having a goat go lame for a few days after an IM in the hip. I didn't do that shot, but I know that with my luck I would hit the nerve I try so hard to avoid. Sub Q is made for me.

 

[JasonRain]

Don't do IM on meat animals unless you have to

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[Mamaboid]

SubQ for everything we can here. Just how I learned to do it when we first got the goats and have kept it up.

 

[Canadiannee]

JasonRain - What is your reason for not doing IM on meat goats?

I understand that many individuals do what they were taught (know) or are most comfortable with... but I'd like to know why a few have said that you should not do IM for meat goats. I did read one poster who said because it bruises the carcass... but surely if we're talking about yearly vaccinations on breeders, or young stock (that has number of months before butcher) it shouldn't make a difference, should it?... we're talking about using 1/2" 20 gauge needle. Inquiring mind needs to know

 

[larryj57]

SubQ for everything we can here. Just how I learned to do it when we first got the goats and have kept it up.

I agree, we use the SQ method and have never had a lump show up.