Stock Doctor Medicating System

[ALLFARMER]

Just wondering if anyone is using this?

[smcgrath76]

I think there are issues with dose
control, injection site control and
injection site lesions, although they may
have done some improvements in that area.

[greybeard]

I use a medi-dart for foot rot.
Only way to do bulls on remote pastures.

[SADIE]

smgrath---Your comments are very true and remain a problem to this day.

What is the maximum dosage---Mls or cc that you can get in "one shot" or one dart?

There is less "target area" is one tries to get the IM shot in the Triangular space in the neck region. The jugular is still "ventral".

That leaves the Hip and thigh region an area that Most producers have tried to move away from in the last decade.

I know the concern and the problem in treating the "footrots" in remote pasture areas.

[kato]

For every day use? No. For emergency? Sure. If it comes to a choice of an animal dying in the pasture because it can't be caught, and risking tissue damage to save it's life, then it's a good enough tool.

My cousin has the bow and arrow type. He only uses it as a last resort, but it has helped in some of those impossible to treat any other way situations.

Some guys use it to give a tranquilizer, which is a small dose, which allows them to inject with antibiotics the correct way.

That being said, we priced out tranquilizer guns a few years back, and found it cost about the same amount to build a small corral in the pasture. As a bonus, it makes catching them all in the fall a lot easier.

[Mufferaw]

"in some of those impossible to treat any other way situations." = cull from herd. Too often people keep a productive animal and forget to cull based off of (handling, stress, etc.) management.

[kato]

Ya, but you've got to keep them alive long enough to cull them.

[greybeard]

If you have a bull showing any sign of foot rot you better get him done right now. Most occasional use corrals don't handle bull doctoring to well and getting them stretched out with ropers is always a rodeo.

[ALLFARMER]

Tried it out last night. We love this tool, foot rot issues are best resolved if treated right away. Thats the biggest thing for me, treating right away not when we have time/manpower/energy to rodeo. We have a 2 seat quad so my oldest son drove up behind and I ran the stock doctor. Treated 2 animals in less than 10 minutes.

[kaj100un]

we have used one for a number of years
work well in pasture conditions only
thing cattle learn quick, treating once
is usually fairly easy second time
different story they see that thing and
they are on edge quick