Question about LA200

[DonnaRay]

Hi everyone,
I'm new to this list and somewhat new to goats as well although we had a small herd years ago. I have a 1 1/2 year old boer goat with 2 babies on her (born March 20) and she has started coughing. Temp is normal (103), eating very well and good "poops." Some clear to whitish discharge from her nose, not lethargic. Can someone tell me if LA200 is the same as biomycin? I see that LA200 is labeled for cattle and swine. Can I use this on my goat?

[Bearfootfarm]

It's similar to biomycin in that they are both "tetracycline" type antibiotics. Its often used on goats and sheep as an "off-label" use.
Personally I'd wait and see if her cough gets worse, since she's not showing any other symptoms.

[jBlaze]

LA200 and biomyacin are same I have heard, but the LA stings and the Bio does not, so I have heard.
Is she alergic to something? I typically only use the antibiotics with a temperature.

look on the fiasco site, they have something the swear by that stops sniffels.
http://fiascofarm.com/goats/respiratory.htm

[DonnaRay]

We think that she might have picked up a "bug" from traveling to and from a sale. I bought her at a sale in Tennessee. Just to be on the safe side, the vet there recommended a small dose of LA200 or biomycin. I too heard that the LA200 stings, but I wondered how the goat relayed that to the human?? Maybe it was how they reacted. Thanks, Donna

[Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians]

200mg tetracycline has hundreds of forms. LA200 for cattle is given in the muscle of cattle and it actually causes caustic inflamation of the muscle to keep the drug in the system...hence the LA, long acting. In a goat they have much smaller muscles and much much faster metabolisims so there is no such thing as long acting anything. 200 mg tetracyclines are given at 3.5 cc per 100 pounds once a day under the skin. All over the counter antibiotics are given under the skin in goats. You can give the first short as a loading does in the muscle if you prefer, and then move subq.

If you think for one second she is coming down with shipping fever/ pasteurella pnemonia you can use tetracycline and banamine together. The teracycline for the infection and the banamine to keep the scarring down in the lung, but Naxcel is a much better product anyway and since you have to use a vet for banamine (1cc per 100 pounds once a day IM). If she is a valuable animal I would not bother with tetracycline, and certainly one shot isn't smart, it's why we have resistance all those one shots just because. Vicki