Vaccine lumps

[ksalvagno]

Actually, the dose usually is 2cc so you didn't give too much. What brand are you using?

 

[helmstead]

Unfortunately at 1 cc...you've underdosed them all and will have to do the whole caboodle over again...the dosage is 2 cc no matter the size of the goat.

 

[Roll farms]

Essential 3+T from Colorado Serum is actually labeled to be given either IM or SQ....I use that one, IM, and no more lumps!

 

[Goatherd]

Did I perhaps give them too big a dose, I gave 1 cc to each. The bottle did not state how much to give.

Actually, you under dosed them. The dosage for any size/age of goat is 2 cc.

 

[20kidsonhill]

Essential 3+T from Colorado Serum is actually labeled to be given either IM or SQ....I use that one, IM, and no more lumps!

I might try that next time, I am tired of vaccination lumps. 3 show whethers this year out of 15 sold, have vaccination lumps on them. Annoying to say the least One of them is right in the middle of the neck. the other two are in the elbow area.

 

[aggieterpkatie]

I always give near the arm pit, but on the body side, almost on the side of the chest. I usually don't have lumps, but I've gotten them occasionally. Even if you do get lumps you can't see them there, that's why I give them in that spot.

 

[Roll farms]

I know a lot of folks give them there...it's another one of those "things I didn't know until years after I started in goats" b/c there was not much info on the WWW back then.

I bought a goat from a 'show' breeder a couple years ago. She had a lump in her arm pit from a shot when I bought her. I didn't pay it any mind. She was supposed to be bred...she wasn't....I ended up not liking her much so I sold her to an older gentleman who used to run a goat / cow dairy back in the 70's.

He called me a couple weeks later, all freaked out b/c the doe had a 'lump' in her armpit. I explained about what it was / why 'show' breeders do it there, and he was wayyy skeptical (I know he thought it was CL). His last words were, "Well, I am taking her to the vet and if this turns out to be anything other than you've said, you WILL be taking the goat back AND returning my money."

I never heard from him again....

 

[savingdogs]

Did I perhaps give them too big a dose, I gave 1 cc to each. The bottle did not state how much to give.

Actually, you under dosed them. The dosage for any size/age of goat is 2 cc.

Sheesh, so they got these lumps for nothing? I would imagine 1 cc is not effective?

 

[Roll farms]

It may or may not be enough to stimulate an immune reaction. I would think that if they got a lump, they had a reaction...but I'd be tempted to give them 2 more rounds of 2cc ea, just to be sure.

 

[savingdogs]

Thanks, at least I know now where to give it!