Goat Worming and Milk use question

RogR

Recently purchased a 2 year old dairy goat, never had a kid, was hoping to breed her and use her milk for house use next year. However past owner has informed me that he used Stronghold (selamectin I think) dog wormer and flea treatment on her as parasite treatment. I am wondering now if her milk will ever be suitable for human consumption after being treated with a product licensed for use on cats/dogs?

Doctors room ghost

RogR wrote: »

Recently purchased a 2 year old dairy goat, never had a kid, was hoping to breed her and use her milk for house use next year. However past owner has informed me that he used Stronghold (selamectin I think) dog wormer and flea treatment on her as parasite treatment. I am wondering now if her milk will ever be suitable for human consumption after being treated with a product licensed for use on cats/dogs?

I’d say greysides would be able to help you out with this.hel know withdrawal times etc for medicines

Mooooo

Ring a vet or lookup the product info online may be. If no withdrawal periods indicated i guess the only way to know would be to test the milk. Workers in cattle have long milk withdrawals only one type has no withdrawal for milking cows, everything else is 60 days or for youngstock use only afaik

greysides

By the time you breed her and have her kid, next year, the wormer will be long gone.
The bigger problem you will have is that there's probably no medicines, antibiotics or anthelmintics, readily available that will have specified withdrawal times for goats. Best advice there would be to contact the manufacturers before use.

RogR

greysides wrote: »

By the time you breed her and have her kid, next year, the wormer will be long gone.
The bigger problem you will have is that there's probably no medicines, antibiotics or anthelmintics, readily available that will have specified withdrawal times for goats. Best advice there would be to contact the manufacturers before use.

Thanks for all replies much appreciated! Worming while in milk will be issue I will have to look into

Doctors room ghost

RogR wrote: »

Thanks for all replies much appreciated! Worming while in milk will be issue I will have to look into

There’s a lad milking a lot of goats in the aran islands.hed be easy found on google.you could maybe e mail him and ask him to recommend a product and treatment plan.hed know I’d say

Water John

Look in your local supermarket and see who is supplying the goat milk and contact. I kid you not.

Base price

Plenty of contacts in the attached link
http://teagascgoatblog.blogspot.com/p/the-irish-goat-hub.html

RogR

Thanks for all replies. Will try and contact some of those for more information