How do you give a pig Ivomec injection

We thought we could but turns out, we don't know how to catch, hold....really tight, inject and not get hurt. We have never owned pigs and were having fun we've had them for 2 weeks newest worn off. Please if any one has advice, please offer.

mstricer1rm said:

We thought we could but turns out, we don't know how to catch, hold....really tight, inject and not get hurt. We have never owned pigs and were having fun we've had them for 2 weeks newest worn off. Please if any one has advice, please offer.

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Is the Ivomec for worms and biting insects? Usually for large animals this is given EXTERNALLY AND ALLOWED to soak thru the skin. I haven't done pigs but for horses and cattle a mop like rig delivers a diluted dose by having the anamal pass under it while the rig spreads on top of head and down the back. Can you see yourself injecting a bull or a huge horse?. If you don't know any real stockmen ask the guy at the feed store or where you bought your chemicals

I've never heard of ivermectin being put on the skin and allowed to soak thru on a horse. Maybe it's different in your area, but around here, ivermectin is sold as an oral paste and you either mix it w/the food, or squirt it in at the back of the mouth. Don't know about w/a pig though, never dealt w/them.

Really, gd??

We inject horses all the time with various things. Last round of spring shots my 1900+ lb draft horse stood with his head out of the stall, untied while the vet administered two shots, and drew two different sets of blood.

Ivermectin and other wormers are usually given orally for horses. We often squirt the paste into their food, most of them eat it (with the exception of my 1900 lb draft horse ), otherwise, the paste is squirted into the mouth (hopefully far enough back that they don't spit it out!)

No clue about pigs though... With horses, most shots are given into the muscles at the base of the neck in front of the shoulder. But then I am trying to avoid giving toxic things like that now anyway.

And FYI, worms don't live in an environment of clay. You might want to do some research on that.

lol, the cattle specific ivomec is injectable too...
ivomec works mutiple ways, you can give it orally, inject it or use it as a topical
it works best in terms of a dewormer when given orally or injected...
but it works better for mites, lice, ticks and fleas as a topical (skin or in the ears for ear mites)

i know for pigs its given subQ behind the ear

i belive most vets administer with an automatic syrnge...

ive never had to give a feed hog an injection, id think if youve got a hog whos not used to handling it might be better to simply hog tie him get him on his side tied and a couple frineds to help restrain him.

but with handlable hogs, they train up realy quickly, the few pet pigs ive done are usually food motivated, i generally had the owner stand infront of the pig with their favorite treats and a frined to help. from there on its usually a stick as the owner literally forces food into the pigs mouth LOL. as long as the treat is high value enough they dont usually fight after the initial pinch.

A larger guage needle helps wiht fasert administration too.

mstricer1rm said:

We thought we could but turns out, we don't know how to catch, hold....really tight, inject and not get hurt. We have never owned pigs and were having fun we've had them for 2 weeks newest worn off. Please if any one has advice, please offer.

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Im not sure how big your pigs are....but you can use a cattle panel or a gate, and trap them in the corner of the pen with some help of course...and push them against the pen so they can't move. Then you can give them injections safely...for you and them. Just make sure who ever is holding them in, is strong...you don't want that pig to jerk, and break a needle off! Good luck!

great idea! most vets use squeeze shoots so a couple of sturdy pannels would deifnalty make a makeshift squeeze...

hqueen13 said:

Really, gd??

We inject horses all the time with various things. Last round of spring shots my 1900+ lb draft horse stood with his head out of the stall, untied while the vet administered two shots, and drew two different sets of blood.

Ivermectin and other wormers are usually given orally for horses. We often squirt the paste into their food, most of them eat it (with the exception of my 1900 lb draft horse ), otherwise, the paste is squirted into the mouth (hopefully far enough back that they don't spit it out!)

No clue about pigs though... With horses, most shots are given into the muscles at the base of the neck in front of the shoulder. But then I am trying to avoid giving toxic things like that now anyway.

And FYI, worms don't live in an environment of clay. You might want to do some research on that.

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Now why would I want to do that? MY current soil is sand and I would never raise pigs I hate them with a passion that goes back to childhood when one old sow tried to eat me.