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Draxxin

Totally agree Faster,the problam with products like that,they're ok if directions are followed but that sometimes doesn't happen. Gregs brother didn't read instructions to a pour-on that warned gloves HAD to be worn....he was VERY sick for days.
 
Accidents do happen. Picture this: a rancher on a horse or a 4-wheeler
trying to catch a calf in a pasture to treat him with Micotil.
Too dangerous if you ask me. Not worth the risk.

That was too bad about Greg's brother. You just can't be too
careful with those chemicals.

Our lesson was the old fellow who owned the ranch on the
Powder River was always walking among the cattle when they
were being sprayed for flies. He got leukemia when he was
over 65 years old. They figured the fly spray had a lot to do
with it. He eventually passed away from the leukemia.

And there was a fellow in Wyoming who got Cor-al in his snoose
and it wound up killing him. At least that is the story that circulated.
 
Yes, it can't be stressed enough. BE CAREFUL WITH MICOTIL!

I had a sick steer calf last winter. Bloated up, snotty nose, breathing hard. Hauled him to the vet. She unbloated him with a tube down his throat. Also gave him some mineral oil and frothy bloat treatment Took his temp and he had a fever, so he got the shot of Micotil. It sure straightend him right out. In a month or so he will be in my deep freeze! :D :D :D
 
Micotil works great but we quit useing it because of the danger. We bought a dart gun for treating cattle that aren't handy to get in to the chute and micotil works great for that.
 
DJL said:
We're using Draxxin at the feedlot for some of the sick calves. Don't know how it's working compared to the other drugs, but I do know that I have a paranoia about dropping the darn bottle. A thousand bucks for a 250 cc bottle, or thereabouts, and I'm not sure the plastic casing around it would protect it from the cement floor in the hospital!
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that plastic holder is dang near indestructible. we threw it and an empty bottle up to the rafters at work to see what it could handle. Took a good beating and didn't do anything.

We haven't used it at home, the price tag scares me away a little and especially since we aren't running all the small calves we once did there isn't much reason to have it around when LA 200 accomplishes what we need it to.

I've been told that if you use it in a feedlot on incoming cattle that at all look sick or are at all running a temp and you shoot them with it your going to significantly decrease both your death loss and retreat rates. Grandpa got to be in on one of the 25 producer conference calls about it a while back and they all went through it. It was in that conference where a feedlot operator said that since starting mass incoming treatment with Draxxin they haven't seen any Mycoplamsa.
 
We also use started using Draxxin this year. They are right, you do have to be patient as it can fool you and take a few days to show that it's working. We also give Banamine to everything we treat to drop the fevers and keep them coming to the bunk. We get the majority of our calves in as odds and ends and that leads to a lot of comingling and chance for sickness to set in. Most averaged in the low three wts. So far so good with draxxin and nuflor.
 
Howdyjabo said:
Lordy-- the LAST way you would want to use Micotil is in a dart gun or automatic syringe.
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Have you ever used a dart gun? If you load you dart right the chances of you getting injected are a lot less than treating a calf in anything other than a sqeeze chute.
 

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