Over wormed

[bird dog]

I worked a batch of cows and calves this morning and my son in law helped for the first time. I let him do the worming. When we switched to calves he read the dosage meter in kilos instead of pounds and applied 66o lbs of wormer to 300 lb to a few calves. What harm will this do?

Thanks in advance
Bird dog

 

[Anonymous]

No harm. Just less worms.

 

[ga.prime]

It's better to put too much than not enough. Wormers I've used say on the label they have been tested safe to use at 10 x the recommended dosage.

 

[LRTX1]

iI worked for a feller one time that had a platform in his working pens over the alley. One guy would sit up there with a 5 gallon bucket of wormer and a big ole soup laddle. As the cows went under him he would just through a laddle or two on them. Never once measured anything.

 

[JSCATTLE]

I have cows ranging from 800 lbs to 130O lbs . Everything get the 1400 lb rate. No problems so far . And the same goes for calves the heaviest is where I set the worm gun .

 

[B&M Farms]

I have cows ranging from 800 lbs to 130O lbs . Everything get the 1400 lb rate. No problems so far . And the same goes for calves the heaviest is where I set the worm gun .

I too set my gun for the heaviest and worm everything the same. It may cost a little more but my vet has told me he thinks most resistance problems have come from not worming at required rates.