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Is there any cheap way of treating lambs for coccidiosis 2.5l of vecoxan is €260 and I’m wondering if anyone has an alternative?
I’m actually not sure. you could be right about that I didn’t ask but will when in merchant againDoes vecoxan treat coccidiosis? Prevention yes. In calves I know baycox will cure it.
@neilo
Does vecoxan treat coccidiosis? Prevention yes. In calves I know baycox will cure it.
@neilo
We had a really bad outbreak of cocci in September one year in weaned lambs that got moved from clean grazing onto pasture that had store Hoggs on the spring before, it was really bad and we lost a load of lambs because I thought it was worms on the Friday and by the time I worked out by the Tuesday it was cocci they were buggered. Didn’t help that it was hot and they where drinking out of a watering hole that was slow moving, the sick lambs where shiting in the water and the healthy ones where drinking it!Our vets tell us to use it to treat cocci in lambs, bought a litre of generic this year, it was cheaper than vecoxan but only £5- 10 I think.
Had it diagnosed along with nematodirus in August several years ago, vet told me not to bother dosing them for cocci as they would be immune by then - did the shitey ars*d ones anyway
As I may have posted once or twice before , I’ve been using Brinicombe buckets (containing Deccox) for decades now, putting them out for a bit when we see the a few dirty bums. Lambs don’t take them in any quantity before they get a dose of cocci, the associated mild dehydration driving them to the salt contained apparently, then they take a big dose of Deccox which clears the cocci quickly, before they shed millions of cocci to continue the cycle. The fact that they are challenged briefly means that they develop a long term natural immunity.
We used to see terrible cocci, but get less and less every year, despite having sheep on the same fields every year and no cattle, and also seem to use fewer buckets each year.
Last year I sold a 7 month old ram lamb to a large pedigree flock that uses Vecoxan routinely, and he started squitting through the eye of a needle within a few weeks. They gave him a dose of Vecoxan and he dried up almost overnight. That lamb had clearly never even had enough of a challenge here to develop immunity, which I can only explain by the pastures getting cleaner over time.
The new buckets are hopeless though. Ewes plough through them like sweeties.
They are certainly more palatable than the originals, but not as bad as when the silly buggers made them with maize for a year. Still working out cheaper than Vecoxan here, without the hateful job of drenching wriggly little lambs.
As above, we find we are using fewer every year, but then we only put them out when we get a few mucky bums, and certainly not in front of them all summer.