The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: plumseverywhere on February 27, 2012, 12:43:16 pm
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Just been to Countrywide to stock up ready for vaccinating lambs/kids etc.
What size needles do you all use for subcut injections on your a)kids and b)adult goats. Is there any difference? would it be the same for lambs/adult sheep please?
up till now Vet's drawn it up ready for me.
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For "under the skin" injections I use (on all animals) 21Gx 5/8'', or 0.8x16mm in new money needles. I get disposable ones from the vet, use them a few times (cleaning them straight after use and then boiling them for about 10mins in water before re-use). They inevitably get bent and also very quickly blunt, especially by the sheep.
Goats get their shots while eating a treat on the milking stand, they don't really noice it; sheep and lambs is a two-person job, and I use a vaccinator gun for them (it came free at some point and works really well).
I have thicker needles for intramuscular (not to hand this minute), but you are most likely to get those drawn up from the vet already. It's mainly antibiotics.