Drenching, Pain, help

Shouldn't be a problem diluting it with water. It mixes with water in the stomach anyway.

I figured as much. Fill the remainder of the syringe with water and let'em have it. No complaints of course from the billy boys. :mrgreen:

Thanks,

Marlowe
Great Falls, Mt.

I use lure-lock syringes because of this; catheter tip syringes leave too much room in the end of the syringe thus leaving the medicine in the syringe, not in the goat. To solve this I just got some wire cutters and cut the catheter tip of the syringe off (or the lure lock end, I cut the ends off of all of the oral syringes) , leaving a small hole in the end of the syringe for the medicine to come out. I like this method, esp for horses where I may only have one good chance to get the wormer or aspirin in their mouth. I've done this with the goats with a 5 cc syringe and it works well!

I use luer slips too. Works well and you can throw them out when you are done drenching. They come in all sizes from half a cc to 50 cc's.

Id suggest a dosing syringe from say Jeffers or a locale feed store. Also remember there is debate on just about anything dewormer related. Something like an Ivormectin poor on can and should be used orally and because of a goats anatomy, it is suggested to use like up to 3 times the suggested dose. So I tell breeders around here to research and google their choice of warmer and go with what best works for them.

Also, a dosing syringe works great to use for putting just about any kind of liquid down a goats throat with little worry of them breathing it in. Caution on using a alcohol base wormer. It will erase the printed writing on the side