I am going up ta a friends farm who is having a terrible time with parasites. She had tried an Herbal wormer, and had zero success. I know there are barber poles, round worms, and tapes in the fecal. The plan is to use Ivomec Plus. My question is would you give it orally, or as a Sub Q. Two goats are sick already so the situation is urgent. I am concerned about bleed out, and overloading the goats systems with dead worms. Please advise. I am leaving in an hour to head to her place.
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Great, glad to hear things are better this morning.
Update!! Everyone seems to be doing very well this morning according to my friend. :)
Thank you for your help Deborah, thank you GOD for this website. It is so helpful, and means so much to us!!!
We gave it orally. I forgot to mention that. There are so many different ideas floating aroung out there for worming it's crazy.
Was it for cattle? If so, you should have doubled the dosage on the bottle; if it was the 1%, you just quadrupled the cattle dosage. And it does not kill tape worms.
There is NO need to give it two days in a row. Ivomec stays in the system for several days if given orally. If you injected it, it stays in the system for weeks. And no, you don't need to give it every ten days for three times. I know people do this, but I have never seen any research to back this up. Actually, the research says that if you follow this protocol, it causes resistance much faster than if you give a single dose, which is what the manufacturer recommends. The reason you see so many conflicting instructions is because most vets in the US don't know much about treating goats, and there are not a lot of drugs labeled for goats, so people are using things off-label and basically winging it. If the goats don't get better from a single dose, then you need to use a different dewormer because it means that they are resistant to this one.
There is a good article written here by Steve Hart, PhD, from Langston University, who is one of only four field parasitologists in the US who studies sheep and goats: http://www.sheepandgoat.com/ACSRPC/
Kirsten Lowe said:
Ok so far we have given Ivomec Plus injec. at a rate of 1cc per 25#. Now the question is give two days in a row (which I have read), or once every ten days totalling three times. This is the most confusing part of goat ownership. There never seems to be a standard way to do anything. Please advise...any help is very appreciated :)
For tapes, you need a white dewormer -- Safeguard, Valbazen, or praziquantel, which is only available in a horse dewormer as a combo with ivomec or cydectin.
There are several different ivomecs out there, and the dosage depends on what you are using -- sheep drench, cattle injectable, horse dewormer??? They are all different.
I have too. Just not had a prarasite problem like this. What rate do you give your orally? 1cc per 30#??
I've always given Ivomec orally. I know the milk withdrawal for Sub Q is really long, like weeks, not days, although I can't remember exactly how much off-hand.