cydectin orally, milk withdrawl?

mesquitemama · #1 07/01/08, 04:06 PM

I didn't realize there were so many mixed reports about this drug before I had my goats dewormed with it this morning. I know there is no milk withdrawal for dairy cattle with this used as a pour on, but orally in a goat does anyone use a withdrawal time? I am drinking my goats' milk and breastfeeding my 6 month old infant. My 3 yr old also drinks the goats' milk. I have no idea how to determine a safe withdrawal time. Does anyone observe one?

In a related question, how often does this dewormer cause abortion? I think one of my doelings may have been bred when she was over at my neighbor's house. I asked the woman who was deworming if it was safe to give to a bred doe and she said it was, then I come online and find out that that may not be the case. She is a 4 1/2 month old Nigerian Dwarf cross. If she was bred it was by a Nigerian Dwarf buck.

ozark_jewels · #2 07/01/08, 05:15 PM

If it is just us drinking the milk I do not observe a withdrawal time. That said, if I was nursing an infant, I would be more cautious and maybe give it a week or two before I started it drinking again.

Cydectin has never caused abortions in my does and I have given it to literally a few hundred bred does.

farmmaid · #3 07/01/08, 05:43 PM

I would suggest the same as above. We have never had an abortion problem with using it. We have Nubians, Boers and the cross. It is good stuff.

mesquitemama · #4 07/01/08, 05:58 PM

thank you

DQ · #5 07/01/08, 06:09 PM

this says 56 days for milk. I *think* that is based on residue in milk of sheep. I would be careful if your nursing and even your young daughter. some horse people won't use Cydectin because of side effect problems in equines. I'm admitedly a little far left on consuming chemicals though. I don't worry so much about ivermectinsince it is used in people and has been extensively studied. moxidectin .......

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mesquitemama · #6 07/01/08, 07:00 PM

I saw that milk withdrawal time on that table, but there is also this one http://www.luresext.edu/goats/training/Goatmeds.pdf that lists a "cydectin drench" in addition to the quest/cydectin. 56 days is scary. *sigh*

If I had researched more before deworming them, I wouldn't have gone with it. But that is a lesson and hindsight is 20/20.

I am looking forward to my husband starting a new job so I can get a microscope and some copper boluses!