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Dosing in-calf cows

  • 28-12-2011 4:23pm
    #1
    john62
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭


    Just wondering what advice you have on dosing in-calf cows..
    Have 20 cows that should be calving after January and want to dose them for stomach fluke with Levafas Diamond. Is there any caution I should take or is it just the same as any other animal??

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,756 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    You should be ok if the crush is wide enough and none of them have horns, if any have horns seperate them out and do them one at a time.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #3
    poor farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 446 ✭✭poor farmer


    Are the milkers or sucklers .
    If milkers dont give them levafas i learned the hard way last week


  • #4
    john62
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭john62


    Sorry forgot to say they are sucklers. They have no horns so they should be grand. Was just checking as it said something like be careful with heavily pregnant animals on the box but yous seem to have answered my question so thanks a million.


  • #5
    Dunedin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,447 ✭✭✭Dunedin


    john62 wrote: »
    Just wondering what advice you have on dosing in-calf cows..
    Have 20 cows that should be calving after January and want to dose them for stomach fluke with Levafas Diamond. Is there any caution I should take or is it just the same as any other animal??

    Thanks.


    just make sure not to overdose and you'll be fine. Lev Diam is a big enough dose for cows (could be up to 150ml) so try to be accurate with the dosing as overdosing with LD is not good but otherwise you should be fine - I done my Feb calvers 2 weeks ago with LD with no probs


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