Levitape

[Plopper]

Am I right in saying this has been discontinued? is the are an alternative out there containing praziquantel that is safe for use in sheep?

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

Am I right in saying this has been discontinued? is the are an alternative out there containing praziquantel that is safe for use in sheep?

Sadly there is no alternative.
It was a great product and I am surprised that no company has started making a copy. We bought all we could find and ran out last year.
This also shows how few manufacturers of animal health products there are now and the big companies control the production and price in the world.

 

[Nithsdale]

Is Levamisole not the same product? I'm using it this year...

 

[Downtrodden Dad]

Was told last night that they didn't sell enough to make it worth it.

 

[Amcnab]

What was the benefit of using praziquantel.?

 

[Nithsdale]

What was the benefit of using praziquantel.?

It's good practice to rotate your wormers, as per SCOPS guidelines


If you've never used a yellow group wormer, your worms should be naive to it.

 

[Amcnab]

It's good practice to rotate your wormers, as per SCOPS guidelines


If you've never used a yellow group wormer, your worms should be naive to it.

Rotate often with the 3 different groups of wormer,yellow would contain levamisole I thought.praziquantel is used in dog wormer?

 

[Nithsdale]

Rotate often with the 3 different groups of wormer,yellow would contain levamisole I thought.praziquantel is used in dog wormer?

Aye, i missread your post thinking you just meant yellow group.


But there's 5 groups.

 

[TL100]

Levitape was levamisole + praziquantel. The praziquantel was to control tape worm, levamisole alone has no effect on tape. Only white wormers have some control on tape, although vets say tape worm have no adverse effects on sheep.

 

[andybk]

Was told last night that they didn't sell enough to make it worth it.

or enough to cover the re licencing , which is absolute nonsense, we are forced to use new generation drugs all the time which brings on new resistance issues , older proven meds should be allowed through .

 

[JD-Kid]

Levitape was levamisole + praziquantel. The praziquantel was to control tape worm, levamisole alone has no effect on tape. Only white wormers have some control on tape, although vets say tape worm have no adverse effects on sheep.

with the rise in white resistance the amount of tape worm has lifted in alot of areas
don't think the white controls the heads of tape worm very well just knocks them about a bit were the true tape worm drench clean them out

 

[neilo]

or enough to cover the re licencing , which is absolute nonsense, we are forced to use new generation drugs all the time which brings on new resistance issues , older proven meds should be allowed through .

To be fair, in this case, the new generation products don’t offer an alternative in terms of tapeworm control. Only white workers do that now. The other ai in Levitape was just straight levamisole, which is obviously still available in many products, at a very much lower price.
I would suggest that you could use levamisole & white wormer sequentially to achieve much the same effect (& maybe better against roundworms), and at a lower cost.