Bo-Se is an injectable Selenium/Vit E supplement. Dosage is 1ml/40lbs, SQ. It's Rx only, so you have to get it from a vet. If you're in a Selenium deficient area (most of us are) then yeah, it's good to keep on hand.honeyb12 said:
You *can* do that, but I don't recommend it. PenG works just fine given SQ, and can be dangerous if given IM. If you hit a vein, it's deadly. Plus, I've read way too many posts by people with goats dragging a hind leg because of a badly placed injection of PenG in the back leg.. Or, a badly placed injection of anything, really. It's somewhat easy to hit a goat's sciatic nerve, and goats seem especially prone to become lame if you do hit it.
Bottom line, it's just all around better to SQ PenG to a goat.
4ml, 2x/day through an 18-20ga needle. I use the 18ga when I'm giving PenG, since the particles of the actual drug are sometimes too large to fit through a 20ga. You can use a 20ga and puff anything too large back into the bottle, but then you end up with an 'empty' bottle with big leftover particles of med at the bottom.....which effectively means you underdosed the entire bottle, considering those should be gone when the bottle is empty. Hope that makes sense.
As for accuracy, I assume you mean you're concerned with your ability to guage a goat's weight -- not your ability to pull the plunger till it hits "4".. In that case, where PenG is concerned, approximate weights are OK provided you're not WAAAAY off, and even then I'd actually be more concerned with *underdosing* than overdosing.
There are some O/D'able medications that need a fairly concise weight, though. Bo-Se is one, actually. I'm not saying you need a livestock scale in your barn or anything, but you do need to be proficient at estimating weight visually to ensure you don't O/D your Bo-Se.
