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Housed cattle coughing all of a sudden

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    #32
    Lime Tree Farm
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    Ostertagia type 2 are late developers, not all doses have cover



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    #33
    wrangler
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119888069#Comment_119888069

    Never heard of worm doses being growth stage specific like fluke doses, surely a housing dose clleans out everything, I only ever did the housing dose once



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    #34
    greysides
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    Levamisole doses don't hit the Type II, inhibited larvae, of Ostertagii. Causes "Spring Scours" when they become active, usually March time, I think. How important it is, is questionable. The other dose types have been dominating for years so I've never seen it. I suspect it's the reason why people started dosing "going out of the house". Levamisole would be effective again at that point.

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    #35
    funkey_monkey
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    What's everyone using this year on their cattle? We've got Virbamec Super - Ivermectin and Clorsulon.

    I've just been wondering this evening about whether it would be better to get something like Closamectin injection that can treat immature fluke and therefore we can dose sooner after housing as the calves do kick on after dosing?

    Combinex can treat all stages of fluke - maybe that and something else for mites & lice etc. like Spotinor or Flypor? Calves could be dosed at housing and any burdens would be removed sooner.



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