shortest withdrawal fluke dose

Victor

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Now that closamectin has doubled its withdrawal period what other treatments are there with shorter withdrawal time
Thanksgiving in advance
Vic
 
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Nithsdale

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Livestock Farmer
What's the withdrawal gone upto?

Do you really need to worm at the same time? Must it be an injection?

Flukiver (Closantel) drench is 42 day withdrawal
Trodax injection is 49 days
Triclacert (triclabendazole) drench is 56 days (IIRC)


EDIT;
Most important question what are you doing - sheep or cattle??
 
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hubbahubba

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Sunny Glasgow
Looked at this myself i still dont understand how triclamox is 35 days or fasimec duo 27 days when both active fluke ingredient is triclabendazole which is 56 days if used itself. Fasimec will just clean out worms and triclamox will offer a month protection iirc.
 

Victor

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Location
Devon
What's the withdrawal gone upto?

Do you really need to worm at the same time? Must it be an injection?

Flukiver (Closantel) drench is 42 day withdrawal
Trodax injection is 49 days
Triclacert (triclabendazole) drench is 56 days (IIRC)


EDIT;
Most important question what are you doing - sheep or cattle??
Cattle some of which would be fit before a long withdrawal
Closamectin was a good option at 28 days
 

Nithsdale

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Livestock Farmer
If stock are a month or so off being ready for slaughter, do they really need dosed fluke?

+1


I presume they're in pens/lots... going by age and size sort out the biggest/best/closest to being killed. Put them into a pen/pens by themselves, don't dose them. Do all the rest you know will be kept longer.
 
I know what your saying but you worm cattle that are coughing with normal wormer and it will not cure them, you worm them with a fluke wormer and it does
Fluke doesn't make cattle cough, unless they are so bad with it that their immunity is gone and they are getting pneomonia, but by that time they'd be on deaths door with anemia due to shredded blood vessels in their liver.

Sounds like you maybe have a wormer resistance issue.
Which worming products are you finding not to be working and which fluke/worm combi products are working?
 

Victor

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Location
Devon
Cattle are doing ok atm so I am tempted to pick out the close to fat ones and do the rest
Sent some cattle last week and one had fluke BUT it was the one which had been in since Dec 2018 so had been fluked a couple of times with closamectin and bimectin
It definitely didn't look flukey
Next question is can a bullock get fluke from baled silage?
By the way the bullock that had come in from field couple of months ago and went same time was ok
Both bullocks were -U 3 grades
 

Werzle

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Midlands
Fluke doesn't make cattle cough, unless they are so bad with it that their immunity is gone and they are getting pneomonia, but by that time they'd be on deaths door with anemia due to shredded blood vessels in their liver.

Sounds like you maybe have a wormer resistance issue.
Which worming products are you finding not to be working and which fluke/worm combi products are working?
Always used closamectin twice a year on the calves, 8-10weeks after turnout and a month before weaning/selling in the autumn without a problem. Vet advised save money and use ordinary wormer(non fluke) for the spring worm, didnt work in my opinion so got them in and wormed again but with closamectin which cured the husky/flukey coughing. Never have much problem with pneumonia tbh
 

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