When deciding on timing between dosing treatments, it’s important to know a couple of things about the products. Firstly, if they have no persistent activity, the worm lifecycle can potentially start again straightaway once the animals are let back out onto pasture. Typical lifecycles will complete in three to four weeks the worms will not cause our animals a whole lot of bother until late in/the end of the lifecycle. So, we leave around four weeks between doses in this case. This would apply to products from classes with no persistence, like Albex, Bovex, Zerofen or Chanaverm Plus.
Where products have persistency, like Moxodex Oral, we would add the above three to four week lifecycle period onto the length of persistency to attain the ideal dosing interval. In this case (Moxodex Oral) persistency is five weeks, so dosing interval is 8/9. Note persistency on products generally varies between difference parasites, e.g. ivermectins have longer persistency against lungworm than Cooperia.
When deciding on timing between dosing treatments, it’s important to know a couple of things about the products. Firstly, if they have no persistent activity, the worm lifecycle can potentially start again straightaway once the animals are let back out onto pasture. Typical lifecycles will complete in three to four weeks the worms will not cause our animals a whole lot of bother until late in/the end of the lifecycle. So, we leave around four weeks between doses in this case. This would apply to products from classes with no persistence, like Albex, Bovex, Zerofen or Chanaverm Plus.
Where products have persistency, like Moxodex Oral, we would add the above three to four week lifecycle period onto the length of persistency to attain the ideal dosing interval. In this case (Moxodex Oral) persistency is five weeks, so dosing interval is 8/9. Note persistency on products generally varies between difference parasites, e.g. ivermectins have longer persistency against lungworm than Cooperia.