What is the withdrawal period for Closamectin?
58 days
Closamectin pour-on is highly effective and extremely easy to use compared to injections or drenches. The ease and efficiency of this product will save farmers both time and money. Withdrawal Time:58 days for cattle intended for meat and offal, not suitable for cattle producing milk for human consumption.
Can Closamectin be used on pregnant cows?
Closamectin Injection can be administered to cattle and sheep at any stage of pregnancy or lactation provided that the milk is not intended for human consumption.
What is Closamectin?
Closamectin® Pour-on Solution for Cattle from Norbrook subject to an increased withdrawal period. Since its launch in 2009 Closamectin Pour-on for Cattle has proven to be a highly effective endectocide, treating roundworms, late immature to adult fluke (from seven weeks) as well as mange mites and lice.
How do you administer Closamectin?
It should only be injected subcutaneously into the neck. A maximum dose of 10ml should be administered at any one site with any residual volume administered at another site in the neck. A sterile 16-gauge, one-inch needle is recommended.
What is Closamectin used for?
Closamectin Fluke & Worm Pour-On for the treatment of mixed trematode (fluke) and nematode or arthropod infestations due to roundworms, lungworms, eyeworms, warbles, mites and lice of cattle.
Does Closamectin treat Lungworm?
How do you use cattle pour-on Wormer?
Properly administer pour-on dewormer: Apply the product with an applicator gun along the midline (over the top of the back of each animal). Begin at the withers, and pour all the way down to the tailhead. Make sure the entire dose gets on the animal, not on the sides of the chute or on the handlers.
How do you treat rumen fluke?
Currently, oxyclozanide (normally marketed as a treatment for liver fluke) is the only drug with proven efficacy against immature and mature Rumen Fluke infections, according to Dr Waal. As with Liver Fluke, Rumen Fluke share the same intermediate host, the mud snail.
Can you give a cow too much ivermectin?
Reports of toxicity exist in other species include humans. Horses, cattle, pigs and rabbits show signs of neurotoxicity including depression, ataxia, rigidity, and impaired vision when given doses in excess of 4-8 times the recommended dose [1].
What causes rumen fluke?
Eggs are passed in faeces onto pasture where they hatch and then infect a snail intermediate host – the commonest is Galba (lymnaea) truncatula. The larval rumen fluke develop through several stages in the smail until cercariae are released by the snail and encyst on grass as metacercariae.
What kills rumen fluke in cattle?
Currently, oxyclozanide (normally marketed as a treatment for liver fluke) is the only drug with proven efficacy against immature and mature rumen fluke infections.