Does anyone use Cydectin? We picked up a sweet Boer wether we met at our county fair and he is on monthly Cydectin dosed at 1 ml per 10 lb. Wondering if this would work for our Nigerians so everyone is on the same thing?
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I hope you are keeping the new goat quarantined for at least a month so that he won't accidentally give anything to your NDs.
Yikes! That is old, old advice ... like 1990s! If you continue doing that, the worms on your farm will be resistant to Cydectin in no time -- and Cydectin is one of the two strongest dewormers out there, so if worms on your farm are resistant to it, you will at some point sit back and watch goats die from worms because nothing will work. Normally I never say never, but there is no situation where a knowledgable, up-to-date vet would recommend a deworming schedule like that for any breed of goat. Actually deworming schedules are not recommended at all with chemical dewormers because of the problem of dewormer resistance. Raising Goats Naturally has 24 pages of information on internal parasites, so I can't repeat all of that here, but the bottom line is that you only give a dewormer to a goat that has a problem with worms -- just as you should only give an antibiotic to a goat that has an infection that can be treated with an antibiotic. Feeding antibiotics regularly will mean that the antibiotics will no longer work when you need them.