Safe Guard

[Elyse Nicholson]

I used to use Safeguard, but realized it was not working when I would still find white eyelids. But I just read a different dosage on it and am wondering if this why it wouldn't work for me.

 

For my goats, I would just do 1.2 cc per 50 pounds. But then I found this info.  3x does listed on packaging, 3 days in a row, follow up in 10 days another course. Give orally. Could this be the reason?I know they still might be resistant, but am wondering if it ever even worked if my dosage was to little.

 

I like figuring out mysteries with animals, so I was just wondering what others thought!  

 

WG4

 

 

[Elyse Nicholson]

This makes sense Deborah! Now I am just going with my old thought of a resistance.

Thank you!
WG4

Deborah Niemann-Boehle said:

The 1.2 cc per 50 pounds is for the goat Safeguard. The recommendation to give 3X the dosage is if you are using the horse Safeguard, which is what we used before they came out with the one labeled for goats a few years ago. Basically, if your goat weighed 100 pounds, you'd dial up the Safeguard to the 300 pound mark. Using it three days in a row is when treating tapeworms. For most dewormers, you can't just say X is the correct dosage, because it depends on how much of the drug is in the formulation that you have. Ivermectin for sheep and cattle are VERY different, so if you gave sheep ivermectin at the cattle dosage, it wouldn't do anything, because the sheep formulation is essentially very watered down. Dosages between species varies tremendously.

As for resistance -- parasites will become resistant to any dewormer within a certain amount of time. Basically, the more you use it, the faster the worms will become resistant.

[Deborah Niemann-Boehle]

The 1.2 cc per 50 pounds is for the goat Safeguard. The recommendation to give 3X the dosage is if you are using the horse Safeguard, which is what we used before they came out with the one labeled for goats a few years ago. Basically, if your goat weighed 100 pounds, you'd dial up the Safeguard to the 300 pound mark. Using it three days in a row is when treating tapeworms. For most dewormers, you can't just say X is the correct dosage, because it depends on how much of the drug is in the formulation that you have. Ivermectin for sheep and cattle are VERY different, so if you gave sheep ivermectin at the cattle dosage, it wouldn't do anything, because the sheep formulation is essentially very watered down. Dosages between species varies tremendously.

As for resistance -- parasites will become resistant to any dewormer within a certain amount of time. Basically, the more you use it, the faster the worms will become resistant.

[Elyse Nicholson]

Thanks Dianea! So, if I were to use it again, would you do it the way the above said too?