What dosage were you using on the Levasole? For goats, it should be 1.5x the sheep dose. Levasole is tricky, though....unlike the whites and clears, it's NOT safe to overdo. You can definitely OD a goat on levamisole, and yeah...they'll croak if you do. Definitely important to get your weights right.
My vet put me on the trail for Levasole.. Asked if I'd ever used it, and I said no.. He told me it was a really old wormer that he'd heard of some goat people going back to, and with great success.. They key was that it's something that most worm populations hadn't seen in 20 years, since the point when avermectins hit the market. Most cattle folks apparently dropped Levasole like a hot rock when Ivomec came out, since Levasole was losing its effect at that point anyway...and most never went back. By the time goats started getting hot in the US, Levasole was a distant memory so people went straight to white and clear wormers..
Of course, you can't hardly find Levasole anymore. I managed to find a partial bottle of sheep boluses and bought it.. Haven't used any of it yet, though.. Saving it for a "nuclear option." My goats were the first stock on the ground here probably in decades, so there shouldn't hardly be a worm on the place that could withstand levamisole.
And, for what it's worth...I personally know of at least 8 goats around here that died of a parasite burden this year after having been dosed with multiple rounds of Cydectin pour-on, orally, at a rate of about 1ml/20lbs. Two of those, I saw with my own eyes...helped drag one off. Not mine, mind you...on a buddy's farm. Still, it was a little disconcerting to say the least since Cydectin was supposedly the "nuclear option" maybe two years ago.
My vet put me on the trail for Levasole.. Asked if I'd ever used it, and I said no.. He told me it was a really old wormer that he'd heard of some goat people going back to, and with great success.. They key was that it's something that most worm populations hadn't seen in 20 years, since the point when avermectins hit the market. Most cattle folks apparently dropped Levasole like a hot rock when Ivomec came out, since Levasole was losing its effect at that point anyway...and most never went back. By the time goats started getting hot in the US, Levasole was a distant memory so people went straight to white and clear wormers..
Of course, you can't hardly find Levasole anymore. I managed to find a partial bottle of sheep boluses and bought it.. Haven't used any of it yet, though.. Saving it for a "nuclear option." My goats were the first stock on the ground here probably in decades, so there shouldn't hardly be a worm on the place that could withstand levamisole.
And, for what it's worth...I personally know of at least 8 goats around here that died of a parasite burden this year after having been dosed with multiple rounds of Cydectin pour-on, orally, at a rate of about 1ml/20lbs. Two of those, I saw with my own eyes...helped drag one off. Not mine, mind you...on a buddy's farm. Still, it was a little disconcerting to say the least since Cydectin was supposedly the "nuclear option" maybe two years ago.
