Trodax

Conmaicne Mara

Here we go again

Being aware of one posters (sorry, forgot who!) bad reaction to it along with vac and mineral drench I think.

Ewes will start lambing around March 20. Got Trodax here, would only plan on doing that one single operation the next fine day.

Safe, no?

willfarmerman

Never had any problems with it but if sheep have chronic fluke I have heard there's nothing quicker at puttin em to sleep!

paddysdream

Trodax is very severe on sheep who have (chronic) fluke.
Found out this the hard way a few years ago.Dosed ewes with trodax who were (unknowns't to me) rotten with fluke.This was a few years ago when fluke was only coming to peoples attention around here.At that time sheep were dosed maybe once a year for fluke with whatever was handy/cheap.

Dosed them one afternoon and the next morning had 12 dead ewes.3 or 4 were thin cast ewes so no surprise there but remainder were 2 and 3 year old big heavy sheep.Opened up a few of them in the knackery and livers were shot,rotten through and through.

The vet told me after not to use trodax on sheep unless they were dosed previously with another drench/injection that would kill the fluke slowly.Think trodax kills all the fluke fairly instantly and therefore blocks up the liver straight away instead of the ewe passing them out slowly.Well thats my understanding of it anyways.

Only thing I know is that have never used it since.Prob has a place somewhere along the line if just doing a covering dose.

On a related note,anyone on here finding much resistance to certain worm doses?Dosed lambs during the summer with an ivermectin type dose and found(dung sampling) that it wasn't working for me.Switched back to white drench with good results.Blaming the use of closamectin to dose ewes for fluke and worms over the last couple of years as it was handy and cheap.

Conmaicne Mara

I gave them Tribex last, but for the life of me I can't remember whether that was before or after tipping. Need to write things down!

Thought this seems to indicate I certainly did them before tipping:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=87175913&postcount=2235

Conmaicne Mara

Hm, just Googling, might get some Flukiver to tide me over until a less sensitive time of year. Closentel is the active ingredient, think that is right for this time of year.....

Cran

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Hm, just Googling, might get some Flukiver to tide me over until a less sensitive time of year. Closentel is the active ingredient, think that is right for this time of year.....

If its of any use thats what I usually do, this year I used Endofluke 10% based on Vet recommendation

Conmaicne Mara

Cran wrote: »

If its of any use thats what I usually do, this year I used Endofluke 10% based on Vet recommendation

Just ordered the Flukiver. Looked at Endofluke and it has the same active ingredient as Tribex which I used last.

onyerbikepat

Jeez, I got sprayed in the face today with Trodax. It went into my eyes too, stung a bit. I was injecting a mad bitch of a heifer when she moved just as i pressed on the syringe. Syringe broke just above the needle. It just goes to show, you never can be too careful. Straight to the tap and plenty of washing. You'd laugh at someone wearing Safety Glasses when inejcting an animal, but it would have protected the eyes today.

greysides

Just be aware everyone is going to think you've got jaundice...

onyerbikepat

greysides wrote: »

Just be aware everyone is going to think you've got jaundice...

I know. That's what I thought when it happened. When I saw your username at first, I was afraid you'd say something like 'get to the accident & emergency ASAP'.

greysides

onyerbikepat wrote: »

I know. That's what I thought when it happened. When I saw your username at first, I was afriad you'd say something like 'get to the accident & emergency ASAP'.

Well, if you take to scour..............

Connemara Farmer

You'll be fluke free a while anyway, got to look on the bright side.