ksalvagno
Alpaca Master
Well, I finally know what is going through my goat herd. It is a mycoplasma. The vet that I use has 6 vets in the practice and I have gotten a different vet every time I have taken a goat in. Today I had the vet come out to the farm and got the vet that has a herd of 40 goats. Thank Goodness. He finally told me what is going on. He told me that the only drug that works on this mycoplasma is Draxxin but once in a while some of the other drugs work if it is caught early. Well, Draxxin has worked on a few of my goats, Baytril worked on one goat and it is looking like Gentamicin is working on 2 of my goats. So my last 2 remaining goats that have come down with this are going to be on Draxxin, at least to start.
CM, you will love the cost of Draxxin. The vet asked me if I wanted a whole bottle or just the shots. A bottle of 100 ml Draxxin is approximately $450. Needless to say, I took the shots.
By the way, Draxxin is 1.1cc per 100 lb. It is given once every 7 days. According to the vet who has the herd of 40 goats, even with the goats higher metabolism, it is still a once a week dose. He went through this with his herd recently. So apparently it is going around in our area.
The vet that I saw on Tuesday didn't even blink an eye when I wanted to put my 2 goats that weren't responding to other antibiotics on Gentamicin. Never even mentioned not being able to use the milk or meat. But my vets have also been in the business for over 10 years and I have been using this vet for over 10 years so none of us are new to this. Plus they did see the goats and have been seeing them so they knew what was going on with them. I just wish they would have explained things better to me than "you have an antibiotic resistant pneumonia." But I am thankful that someone has finally fully explained to me what is going on.
CM, you will love the cost of Draxxin. The vet asked me if I wanted a whole bottle or just the shots. A bottle of 100 ml Draxxin is approximately $450. Needless to say, I took the shots.
By the way, Draxxin is 1.1cc per 100 lb. It is given once every 7 days. According to the vet who has the herd of 40 goats, even with the goats higher metabolism, it is still a once a week dose. He went through this with his herd recently. So apparently it is going around in our area.
The vet that I saw on Tuesday didn't even blink an eye when I wanted to put my 2 goats that weren't responding to other antibiotics on Gentamicin. Never even mentioned not being able to use the milk or meat. But my vets have also been in the business for over 10 years and I have been using this vet for over 10 years so none of us are new to this. Plus they did see the goats and have been seeing them so they knew what was going on with them. I just wish they would have explained things better to me than "you have an antibiotic resistant pneumonia." But I am thankful that someone has finally fully explained to me what is going on.