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Worm dose for suckler calves

  • 02-08-2018 9:48pm
    #1
    grassroot1
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    I am looking for a recommendation for a ivermectin dose with residual activity,as this is the advice from my Teagasc adviser.
    Can anyone tell me a brand/product to use.


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  • #2
    blue5000
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    I used turbomec on mine earlier this week. AFAIK all avermectins have a residual effect against lungworm for 2 weeks, so next dose is due in 5 weeks.

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



  • #3
    Hard Knocks
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    blue5000 wrote: »
    I used turbomec on mine earlier this week. AFAIK all avermectins have a residual effect against lungworm for 2 weeks, so next dose is due in 5 weeks.

    How often are you dosing blue?


  • #4
    grassroot1
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    Dectomax are claiming 6 weeks lungworm(thanks google)That would get me over the danger time if correct
    Maybe Greysides might have some info in this regard


  • #5
    blue5000
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    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    How often are you dosing blue?

    That was their first one this year, will go again 1st week of sept. Vet said lungworm wouldn't hatch in the dry weather, but once the rain came they'll hatch.

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



  • #6
    Bass Reeves
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    It is a huge risk using an ivermectin as a first dose on suckler calves. They can be carring a large lungworm burden unnoticed. When these are all killed togeather as with an ivermectin you can get an outbreak of peunomia.

    It is best to to use a product that paralyze the worms like an oral dose first. There was a pour on call levicide that did the same thing but it is gone off the market I think.

    After you have used thsi dose you can follow with an ivermectin 10-14 days later. This time of year you can get a an outbreak of what uis called Fog Fever. As the nights get colder and the lungworm burden increases in August cattle can succume to a kind of silent peunomia. Cattle can seem only a little off form most recover very fast but it can also kill very fast. It is really quite common in yearling bulls especially those in bunches

    Slava Ukrainii



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  • #7
    patsy_mccabe
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    Anyone know how some ivermectins can be long acting and others short acting? I bought Masternectin (short acting) this year for the first time, as the COOP didn't have Noromectin, which I've always use.
    I noticed that the Mastermectin is of a lower viscosity. It splashed about that bit more. Is it that the longer acting pour-ons are more oily and stay on the skin longer?


  • #8
    sonnybill
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Anyone know how some ivermectins can be long acting and others short acting? I bought Masternectin (short acting) this year for the first time, as the COOP didn't have Noromectin, which I've always use.
    I noticed that the Mastermectin is of a lower viscosity. It splashed about that bit more. Is it that the longer acting pour-ons are more oily and stay on the skin longer?

    I’m trying to steer clear of ivermectin products as used a lot of them last few years, oral dosed all calves twice now with fendbendazole first and levafas diamond second.. they were coughing for sure before second dose , only one young heifer calf that didn’t get the first dose needed a repeat of levafas diamond as she was coughing badly... just goes to show that the undosed animal in a group will be more prone to infestation


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