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There is a website from the Univ of MD.... a couple of years ago it was done by the small animal specialist....sschoen@umd.edu... sheep.101.info/QandA/wd.html.... gives the withdrawal times for drugs used extra label in sheep and goats.
Not picking on you @Ridgetop .. because this applies to everyone that uses any antibiotics on FOOD and MILK PRODUCING LIVESTOCK.... and there were many many cattle people that helped to cause this.... BUT... this is why they got so tight with drugs and the regulations put into place.... People that do not look for or use the drugs in a manner that respected the drug manufacturers recommended usage and withdrawal times. I don't know if they test small ruminants for residual... but cattle are randomly checked and I know one farmer that got in alot of trouble from shipping a beef animal that had not gone beyond the withdrawal time... paid a stiff fine and every animal they took to the stockyard was marked and tested for 6 months for residual .
The dairy farmers are constantly tested with the milk... that is why most only use drugs like Naxcel and Excenel because of the short withdrawal times... and any farmer that treats a mastitis cow never gets put back in the milk tank until the milk is tested and/or several days after the recommended withholding time.. Penicillin is hardly ever used on a dairy because of the long withholding times... unless it is an animal they know they are not going to sell anytime soon. It is a very good antibiotic and very effective... but you got to be willing to keep that animal around for at least 30-60 days after last treatment before shipping to be safe...
Had one dairy farmer that had a cow they had tried most everything on... bad mastitis, went into the bloodstream I think... and he asked me when I was testing what I would do... I said hit her with a Penicillin... and hit it hard for several days to a week... and prepare to keep her around if she recovers. He said, well, she is not getting better now, so what did he have to lose because he couldn't ship her anyway... She recovered... he called me to tell me that he could not believe that after 2 days she was actually up and eating... and she came back into her milk. He had to discard her milk for over 30 days with the strength of the treatment he used... it was a "kill her or cure her" last ditch attempt type deal... But he salvaged her, she was pregnant and he got another lactation out of her before he shipped her..
This whole thing of having to get this stuff from the vet, and the vet is supposed to see the animal and treat on a case by case basis, is because of people that do not use the drugs correctly...ie... not giving a full course of the drug... and not respecting the manufacturer's label on withdrawal times.. Too many backyard people were giving shots for things, and when one or 2 shots didn't work, they didn't follow through on treatment protocol and the animals never really got over what they had... the whole thing of ... well I will just give them a shot..... not even knowing what drug worked best for what problem...
Not picking on you @Ridgetop .. because this applies to everyone that uses any antibiotics on FOOD and MILK PRODUCING LIVESTOCK.... and there were many many cattle people that helped to cause this.... BUT... this is why they got so tight with drugs and the regulations put into place.... People that do not look for or use the drugs in a manner that respected the drug manufacturers recommended usage and withdrawal times. I don't know if they test small ruminants for residual... but cattle are randomly checked and I know one farmer that got in alot of trouble from shipping a beef animal that had not gone beyond the withdrawal time... paid a stiff fine and every animal they took to the stockyard was marked and tested for 6 months for residual .
The dairy farmers are constantly tested with the milk... that is why most only use drugs like Naxcel and Excenel because of the short withdrawal times... and any farmer that treats a mastitis cow never gets put back in the milk tank until the milk is tested and/or several days after the recommended withholding time.. Penicillin is hardly ever used on a dairy because of the long withholding times... unless it is an animal they know they are not going to sell anytime soon. It is a very good antibiotic and very effective... but you got to be willing to keep that animal around for at least 30-60 days after last treatment before shipping to be safe...
Had one dairy farmer that had a cow they had tried most everything on... bad mastitis, went into the bloodstream I think... and he asked me when I was testing what I would do... I said hit her with a Penicillin... and hit it hard for several days to a week... and prepare to keep her around if she recovers. He said, well, she is not getting better now, so what did he have to lose because he couldn't ship her anyway... She recovered... he called me to tell me that he could not believe that after 2 days she was actually up and eating... and she came back into her milk. He had to discard her milk for over 30 days with the strength of the treatment he used... it was a "kill her or cure her" last ditch attempt type deal... But he salvaged her, she was pregnant and he got another lactation out of her before he shipped her..
This whole thing of having to get this stuff from the vet, and the vet is supposed to see the animal and treat on a case by case basis, is because of people that do not use the drugs correctly...ie... not giving a full course of the drug... and not respecting the manufacturer's label on withdrawal times.. Too many backyard people were giving shots for things, and when one or 2 shots didn't work, they didn't follow through on treatment protocol and the animals never really got over what they had... the whole thing of ... well I will just give them a shot..... not even knowing what drug worked best for what problem...
