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Author Topic: Goats and aspirin?  (Read 4692 times)

Talana

  • Joined Mar 2014
Re: Goats and aspirin?
« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2018, 09:36:02 am »
Sorry to here of your terrible time,for future reference for people in John Matthews(vet) book, it says 6 aspirin tablets for adult goats 3 x a day 1-2 tablets for kids 3x a day.

fsmnutter

  • Joined Oct 2012
  • Fettercairn, Aberdeenshire
Re: Goats and aspirin?
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2018, 09:41:09 am »
What size tablets is that Talana? I've always found mg/kg doses preferable as tablets per goat is very vague, especially as an adult Boer will be a very different dose to an adolescent pygmy for example

Talana

  • Joined Mar 2014
Re: Goats and aspirin?
« Reply #17 on: April 24, 2018, 01:23:16 pm »
John Matthews quotes in his diseases of the goat book 50-100mg/kg po every 12 hours (aspirin poorly absorbed from rumen so relatively high doses needed)
John Matthews quotes in vet section in all about goats(based on dairy goats) book 6 tablets for adult (dairy goat) 3 x a day 1-2 for dairy kids 3 x a day.
I think best to get loxicom metacam or whatever prescribed from vet but it is handy to have aspirin on standby.
I once had a goat with mild laminitis out of vet hours so could nt get loxicom unless had an emergency call out so I gave aspirin to tide her over til mon to see vet but caught early and she was back to normal by then.

 

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