Healthcare

wellness

The information provided in this section is purely for educational purposes and you should check with your veterinarian for advice on dealing with health issues with your animals.
Ivomec

Controls 14 types of sheep roundworms, all larval stages of nasal bots, and lungworms. Ivomec has an 0 day withdrawal time prior to butchering.  Controls 14 types of sheep roundworms, all larval stages of nasal bots, and lungworms. Has a wide margin of safety – safe in pregnant ewes, rams, and lambs. Dosage is 3 ml per 26 lbs. of body weight.
 
Safe-Guard
Is an excellent tapeworm dewormer. Safe-Guard (fenbendazole) has an 8 day withdrawal time prior to butchering.  Apple-cinnamon flavor added makes this effective sheep paste wormer highly palatable. For oral use in all sheep, including pregnant ewes and breeding rams, and lambs. For the control of large and small strongyles, pinworms, ascarids, and 4th stage larvae of “strongyle vulgaris”.
 
Tramisol Oblets (levamisole hydrochloride)
Tramisol Oblets hit major sheep stomach worms, intestinal worms and lungworms; effective against 10 species including all strains of barberpole, the most devasting worm to hit sheep. Dosage based on body weight.  Tramisol Oblets has an 3 day withdrawal time prior to butchering

Valbazen
Is a broad spectrum anthelmintic for sheep flukes, tapeworms, stomach worms, hookworms and more. Valbazen (brand of albendazole) is a broad spectrum anthelmintic effective in the removal and control of the following internal parasites of sheep: Adult liver flukes, heads and segments of tapeworms, adult and 4th stage larvae of stomach worms, brown stomach worms, including 500 ml 4th stage inhibited larvae, barberpole worms, small stomach worms, adult and 4th stage larvae of intestinal worms, thread-neck intestinal and small intestinal worms, adult stage of intestinal worms, hookworms, bankrupt worms, nodular worms and adult and 4th stage larvae of lungworms.  Oral administration is less stressful than injectable wormers; avoids injection site lumps.  Not for use in dairy cattle of breeding age. It has a 27 day slaughter withdrawal. Dosage: 4 ml per 100 lbs. bodyweight. Do not use on rams within 60 days of breeding.  Product can reduce reproduction.  Product can cause abortions in ewes.