With the inclement weather recently, thoughts have turned to dosing cattle. It's important to get product selection right here.
Chances are, cattle in Ireland have seen a lot of clear wormers in their lifetime - likely in the form of ivermectins. While they're very effective, change is good to keep worm populations 'on their toes'. With excessive use of single ingredients, worm populations can develop resistance and our product becomes less effective.
On farms, that manifests itself in more clinical symptoms and poorer animal performance. Use this back-end to look at other active ingredients like white wormers.
Albex 10% contains albendazole and represents an excellent option for bought-in animals because it's a change from clear wormers but also due to it's ovicidal (kills eggs) activity. Thus, it has good 'quarantine dose' characteristics and will help prevent the introduction of unwanted parasite populations onto a farm. It's also effective against adult liver fluke and has a short (14 day) meat withdrawal.
The second wormer class is the yellow doses or levamisoles. Chanaverm Plus belongs here and again, represents a good 'break dose'. It's got an 18-day meat withdrawal and good efficacy against the important internal worms in cattle. It can often be the go-to dose when lungworm is suspected as its mode of action leaves less decaying worm material behind in the animal and so there can be less of a reaction. It should be noted that because levamisole is not effective against inhibited Ostertagia o. larvae, it is not advised as a housing treatment.
The third wormer class in cattle is the clear wormer class. In cattle, these come in injectable and pour-on forms. Ivermectin is encompassed in this group and can often be the go-to at housing given its efficacy against external parasites. Ivermectin is has persistent activity against Cooperia o. for 14 days, Ostertagia o. for 21 days and lungworm for 28 days.
With the inclement weather recently, thoughts have turned to dosing cattle. It's important to get product selection right here.
Chances are, cattle in the UK have seen a lot of clear wormers in their lifetime - likely in the form of ivermectins. While they're very effective, change is good to keep worm populations 'on their toes'. With excessive use of single ingredients, worm populations can develop resistance and our product becomes less effective.
On farms, that manifests itself in more clinical symptoms and poorer animal performance. Use this back-end to look at other active ingredients like white wormers.
Albex 10% contains albendazole and represents an excellent option for bought-in animals because it's a change from clear wormers but also due to it's ovicidal (kills eggs) activity. Thus, it has good 'quarantine dose' characteristics and will help prevent the introduction of unwanted parasite populations onto a farm. It's also effective against adult liver fluke and has a short (14 day) meat withdrawal.
The second wormer class is the yellow doses or levamisoles. Chanaverm belongs here and again, represents a good 'break dose'. It's got a 20-day meat withdrawal and good efficacy against the important internal worms in cattle. It can often be the go-to dose when lungworm is suspected as its mode of action leaves less decaying worm material behind in the animal and so there can be less of a reaction. It should be noted that because levamisole is not effective against inhibited Ostertagia o. larvae, it is not advised as a housing treatment.
The third wormer class in cattle is the clear wormer class. In cattle, these come in injectable and pour-on forms. Ivermectin is encompassed in this group and can often be the go-to at housing given its efficacy against external parasites. Ivermectin is has persistent activity against Cooperia o. for 14 days, Ostertagia o. for 21 days and lungworm for 28 days.
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