Cydectin - sheep drench

[Blossomgapfarm]

I have the Cydectin sheep drench and was wondering if I can use it for my goats and if so, what dose? Go by the recommended dose for the sheep or higher? I know many of you use the pour-on but I have the Cydectin drench on hand and it would be a couple of weeks - (not to mention the cost ) before I could get the pour on. Any advise?
Dawn

[Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians]

A pretty good rule of thumb since goats have such faster metabolisims than sheep, is to simply not to use anything labeled OK for sheep on it on your goats. Both in meds (amounts) and nutritionally.

Like with the Ivermectin oral sheep drench the amounts you have to give orally to a goat simply makes it dangerous to give this much orally without tubing. I can't see how it would be any different with the Cydectin. I don't know how many goats you have but Quest for horses is the same drug...big time concentrated so you use alot less and the cost is nice, and you can find it at any feed store. Vicki

[Oldntimes]

Vicki... Is the Quest still 4x the weight for Goats?
Thanks

[oceanmist]

I have heard through the grapevine that the Cydectin company has actually put on discussions strongly recommending that goat people NOT use their sheep product on goats. Apparently all it leads to is resistant forms of worms.

On the other hand if you have ever smelled the cattle Cydectin, the stuff smells remarkably like desiel! I have always treated it as a last ditch effort.

Ivermec 1% for cattle given orally not SQ seems to be working for most folks... again just what I have heard since I live in Oregon...

the most commom recommedation when dealing with goats is to NOT rotate your wormers, but rather test before and after treatment to insure your de-wormers effectiveness and continue using it until it no longer works.

take care, Misty

[Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians]

Cydectin Cattle wormer: Contains 5 mg moxidectin/mL
Quest® Gel moxidectin:Contains 20 mg moxidectin/mL

We use Cydectin cattle wormer at the rate of 1cc/22-25#'s.
So, if you gave her 1.5cc of the Quest....you wormed for a 125# goat. Quest is recommended at 1cc/100# of bodyweight. Cydectin pour-on is 1cc/25# orally.
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Most meds are up on dairygoatinfo.com in the goatkeeping101 section. Vicki

[Blossomgapfarm]

Thank you!