The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life, sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that binds us all together.

- Erma Bombeck

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Dosage for CoRid


Recommended dose: " Amprolium 50 mg/kg body weight per head per day for 5 days.(*NOTE: This dose is five times the recommended calf dose.)"-Pugh 

Calf dose:90cc Corid-16 oz(or 480cc) of water give at a rate of 30cc/100# btw. NOT STRONG ENOUGH!! 

Here are the drugs recommended for coccidiostats used for treatment and prevention of coccidiosis in small ruminants. 

Lasalocid-20 to 30 g per ton-approved for use in sheep in US 
Decoquinate-0.5 mg/kg per head per day-approved goats 
Monensin 10-30 gram/ton of feed-approved goats, may be most effective choice for goats. 
Amprolium (Corid)-50mg/kg.. 
Sulfaquinoxaline 13 mg/kg bwt per head per day as solution in water-3-5 day-approved 
Sulfamethazine 119 to 238 mg/kg per head/day 50 g/ton in feed...not approved 
Salinomycin 382 g/ton feed-not approved 

If you are going to use the corid, use it at the following rates and syringe it into each kid according to weight
Don't use water treatement the kids will not drink enough of the water. 

Treatment dose....use once a day for 5 days..no less.Use it full strength...no water! The "calf dose" isn't strong enough for goats. 

Doses below are 50mg/kg (2.2#)....recommended treatment levels for caprines. 

6cc/25# 
12cc/50# 
18cc/75 
24cc/100#

Safeguard for Goats

We treated all of the goats for worms today.  We used SafeGuard (fenbendazole) for horses.  The dosage for goats is 4 times the horse dose.  So when we dosed Asha, we calculated her weight at 150 pounds, multiplied by 4, and dosed her for 600 pounds.  She was not interested in helping, but holding her in the stanchion made it nearly impossible for her to object.

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Covexin 8 for Baby Alpines

K gave Freestyle and Romeo their first Covexin 8 shots today.  He did a fantastic job, drawing up the meds, injecting, drawing back for flash, and administering the meds.  We gave each buckling 2ccs.  We did not do this with the meat bucklings because we prefer to keep all meds out of our meat unless necessary.