A sulfa is a sulfa is a sulfa. Dimthox, Albon, sulmet, suflaquinoxiline they are all in just differing concentrations, if you don't want to go do dairygoatinfo.com and look up in the goatkeeping101 section it's under sannendoah.com med lists, it lists all the sufla's by dose..then find someone who uses exactly the one you purchase and ask them how they dose it....the only one I know by heart is the Dimethox IV injectable is given at 1cc per 10 pounds orally the first day then 1/2 the dose day 2, 3, 4 and 5...repeat every 21 days for prevention...for treatment do not back off the dose days 2, 3, 4 and 5. Obviously this is for kids, way to much drug to give orally to a big goat. Expensive for larger herds. Sulfa's are great for treatment and prevention. Sulfas also are great for bacterial infections and pnemonia so it's more broad spectrum.
The you have Corrid, it is amprolium, it is only for cocci. I use this. In goatkeeping101 over at dairygoatinfo.com we have the dosages for correctly diluting the liquid corrid vets give you, buy it in a pint or half pint and do not dilute it according to your vet or directions on the container, it does not contain enough mg/kg and why most say it does not work. It can also be purchased in a powder in vet catalogs, some places M&S Supply, Sharon is on this and our list, will break down the liquid gallon if you do not have a vet who will. The dosage on our forum is exactly the dose Goat Medicine gives out and it's how I use it. I mix my water part as snow cone syrup from Wallmart so the kids don't balk at the taste if it is given orally, it mixes into milk well at 1cc per 25 pounds (the dosage I mix at) and is great for giving large goats also. We start kids on pervention at 3 weeks old, not a day older, treat for 5 days (unlike sulfa's you do not back down your dose on the last days), off 21 days and back on for 5 days...missing treatments it allows the harmful lifecycle of cocci to flourish which causes the stunted, diarrhea, big bellied kids so many have.
Then there are the continuous feeds...either in milk Deccox M, start about 2 days old and continue until weaned or the feed through Rumensin, Deccoquinate, Lasalocid, Bovatec, they are fed already mixed in pellets or sold in bulk (pipevet.com) know what you are doing if you are going to mix your own. The problem with these is in areas that cocci is a problem no kid at 3 weeks old is eating enough pellets made with any of the above usually 1 pound of pellets per 33 pounds of kid, to really be working, so before they even get a good start cocci has already ruined the kid.
Just like alot of things there is alot of missinformation about Corrid......... good!!! means that we can readily purchase it, it never is on back order
Vicki
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