Hello,
in the long term it's much more dangerous to give not enough wormer because the worms will build up resistance against the main ingredient and the wormer will become ineffective.
It also depends - in the case of safeguard - what type of worms you want to kill. For roundworms 2,3 ml/100lbs is enough but for tapeworms, lungworms and/or liver flukes you need a higher dosis.
I checked in a Swiss databank about the dosage and found to my amazement that the recommended dosage for sheep and goats is the same. Every vet here tells us that goats need 1,5 to 2 times the wormer dosage that sheep need.
Fenbendazol has a broad error margin, sheep tolerate 500 times the recommended dosis.
As you don't know the exact weight of your goats and there's a chance that the dosage recommendation isn't correct for goats I would give 4,6-5ml/100lbs AND give more than for the weight per weight tape.
in the long term it's much more dangerous to give not enough wormer because the worms will build up resistance against the main ingredient and the wormer will become ineffective.
It also depends - in the case of safeguard - what type of worms you want to kill. For roundworms 2,3 ml/100lbs is enough but for tapeworms, lungworms and/or liver flukes you need a higher dosis.
I checked in a Swiss databank about the dosage and found to my amazement that the recommended dosage for sheep and goats is the same. Every vet here tells us that goats need 1,5 to 2 times the wormer dosage that sheep need.
Fenbendazol has a broad error margin, sheep tolerate 500 times the recommended dosis.
As you don't know the exact weight of your goats and there's a chance that the dosage recommendation isn't correct for goats I would give 4,6-5ml/100lbs AND give more than for the weight per weight tape.
