Using pour on on beef cattle

[Farmer9]

beef stores in field where coughing badly, used noromectin pour on - 7 days later they are still coughing, any suggestions? Or how long does it take to work?

 

[roscoe erf]

I hope you have a tin hat on

 

[jon115r]

Touch of pneumonia?

 

[ridger]

Just noticed that with mine tonight as well. They were done with levacide pour on 3 weeks ago. Also had 3 blowing tonight as if they were taking pneumonia so jagged them just now. Just wondering is it anything to do with it being 3 degrees last night and 20 after lunch today?

 

[mushnt grummmble]

pour on is crap

 

[Archie]

Could just be them coughing from dead lungworms in their airways as treatment has worked.
If they seem fine otherwise I wouldn't be panicking just yet.

 

[bovine]

Pour on is not crap. It works very well - as long as used according to the instructions (dose, location, weather). It works less well if you try and blast them 'John Wayne' style loose in a field.

TBH coughing, young animals at this time of year I would worm. If they have bad lungworm then the treatment can make some worse. Generally after successful treatment the cough improves over a couple of weeks. If still coughing it's time to get them in and ideally examined by your vet. As a less good option watch how many times the affected ones breath each minute and check the batches temperatures.

We've had some very wet (humid) weather, couples with quite wide temperature swings - might not be lungworm.

 

[DB67]

The spring born calves got ivomec pour on about a month ago when we took the Bulls away. They had shifted on remarkably since.

 

[Wishful Thinker]

I did mine with bimectin pour on, one batch still continued to cough and weren't pleasing me, jagged them with ivomec super last week the cough has disappeared and looking at them yesterday i swear you could nearly see them putting on flesh, wishful thinking likely.

 

[Wee Willy]

I did a batch with bimectin injection-ivermectin . Still coughing two weeks later. Contacted supplier who sent out the bimeda sales rep. Took dung samples from 4 coughing calves and sent to local lab to test for lung worm larvae. I was suspicious because it's so cheap. They were as clean as a whistle. Bimeda vet reckons I may have been too late worming and lungs were damaged.£26 for 500 ml and now I've proved it does work..the money I've wasted down the years with dear wormers

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I did a batch with bimectin injection-ivermectin . Still coughing two weeks later. Contacted supplier who sent out the bimeda sales rep. Took dung samples from 4 coughing calves and sent to local lab to test for lung worm larvae. I was suspicious because it's so cheap. They were as clean as a whistle. Bimeda vet reckons I may have been too late worming and lungs were damaged.£26 for 500 ml and now I've proved it does work..the money I've wasted down the years with dear wormers

We always use bimecin injection it's cheap as chips used to use ivomec super but it's a rip off...last time we used animec. That was only £17 for 500ml. Don't know how they make it for that!