Cydectin advice sought

[Jcran]

Ft.Dodge- Oral drench for sheep containing 0.1% moxidectin. I just found this for sale at Livestockconcepts.com...anyone know if this is the cydectin I'd use for goats? Can it be used on pregnant critters? Any good spots for more info?

[Delinda]

I use the Cydectin for cattle on my goats, and DO NOT give it to pregnant does. I use Ivomac for the pregnant ones. Don't know about the sheep cydectin.

[YuccaFlatsRanch]

For the best price on Cydectin drench go to Ebay and send an email to COWDOCTORLADY. Her price was recently $55.00 per liter and they paid shipping. Another example - I want a bottle of 50 doses of Footvax for my sheep. Tractor Supply cost - $104.00 - cowdoctorlady - $87.50. They will get almost any vet supply you may need.

[Sweet Goats]

Joan, It IS SAFE for Pregnant goats. I just used it a bit ago. Use double the amount for the weight. I have been told by lots of people that it is safe, and I have NEVER had any trouble.

[plain vision]

We used Cydectin pour-on for cattle for a couple of years on our goats, even pregnant ones. The dose we used was 1cc per 18lbs. We used it as a drench (in the mouth slowly) because we were told sometime back that it doesn't work on goats as a pour-on because their hair is very similiar to a deer's (hollow). The wormer cannot hardly stay on and just sheds right off of the hair coat so doesn't stick on long enough to penetrate the skin. I never studied on that more to see if it were the case or not, but just went ahead and drenched them with it and it does work well. We quit using it for that reason. A veterinarian at O.S.U, goat specialist, suggested to us ... "if you always use the top product and the parasites become resistant to it ... what are you going to use next?"

So we use it if need be, but we did ask a goat rancher with around a 1000 head of goats what she has been using all of these years. She said ivomec injectable for cattle as a drench (in the mouth slowly). The dosage on that is 1 cc per 50lbs of body weight. We use the ivomec injectable plus sometimes because it is broader spectrum. She used this product for 18 years and does fecals and still doesn't have problems. We switched to that for now. When we would like them to really shine we will give them a dose of both safeguard and ivomec injectable (as a drench).

Here is a side note on using sheep wormers for goats. Sheep drenches are water based and goats need an oil based product. We did study this some with ivomec sheep drench and did fecals after worming and then discovered wormloads had increased so much so that we did it again two weeks later, that didn't work either. Finally after the 3rd worming, another two weeks later with ivomec sheep drench, high dosing (as much as 30 cc's for some) - we noticed a decrease in worm loads. We set that product down after that.

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