    
Maggie Leman
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 - 06:34 pm: | |
Why do you give the Cas-Bac? Do you have a problem with CL? If not then you may be needdlessly giving this vaccine.
On to the listeria. This bacteria is most often associaited with contaminated hay or from eating off the ground and ingesting dirt, feeding silage is often a cause, dirt contaminated feed can cause it (some small feed mills are not very careful about how clean they keep their bins and machinery, or how clean their feed grains are...). To treat you must give HIGH doses of antibiotics, penicillin or oxytetracycline are the two most often recommended. FOr the penicillin you give 1 cc per 15 pounds every 6 hours by SQ injection for the first 24 to 48 hours, give thiamin at 5 mg/pound on the same schedule. Then give penicillin and thiamin at those doses for 7 to 10 more days. If using oxytet give 1 cc per 30 pounds by SQ injection on the same schedule as above. The high doses are necessary to get adequate antibiotics into the brain.
You need to figure out why your goats are getting listeria. In 15 years in a wet and warm climate or wet and cool climate (I live in central NC) I have never had a goat with listeria. I have had well over 200 goats on my farm.
You can give nearly all vaccines and medications by SQ injection, this will cause alot less pain and the absorption rate is only a little slower that giving by IM. |
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