Novel_tfarm
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If anyone has any of this product on hand DO NOT USE IT !!!! This article was emailed to me by a very good Source here locally. You can check out the Jeffers Website, they have quite selling it and there is a recall on the product Lot Number. Please Beware
Message Attached::::::::
We have had quite a tragedy at our ranch the last few days, and
after talking to my attorney she gave me the go ahead to tell others
about it. I wormed 5 of my horses with BIMECTIN wormer on
WEDNESDAY, when I went out to give them breakfast on THURSDAY, they
looked sick. My vet was contacted. Long story short, by FRIDAY
they where down and could not get up, and by saturday and sunday
they DIED. The other horses wormed the same day with a DIFFRENT
wormer are FINE. These horses had the same feed, water, hay etc, the
ONLY diffrence in the horses was the WORMER. My vet after seeing
them told me he HAS seen this BEFORE. A MASSIVE overdose of
wormer. Normally a batch of wormer made too strong at the factory.
THIS IS ONLY A SUSPICION ON MY PART. I AM NOT ACCUSSING THE COMPANY,
I AM ONLY PUTTING OUT MY STORY TO LET PEOPLE MADE THEIR OWN
DECISIONS. The necropsys will be preformed on the horses and the
wormers that i still have from the case with the same lot numbers
will be going to independant labs for testing. We lost, 2 young
stallions, 1 PREG mare (due in june) 1 yearling, and 1 weanling is
still breathing as I type but we expect her to die.
Kerry
Second email:
First I would like to thank everyone for their kind words and
support, our whole family is devestated both the two legged ones and
the four legged ones. My doc wanted to give me a sedetive today, but
I have pulled myself together a bit, I pulled the tarp back to pat
them one last time,and it appears the coyotes had come and their
eyes and lips where missing.I lost it for a bit, and our neighbour
is a doc and came over, I have settled into shock the doc says, at
the moment I feel both sad, numb and VERY angry. I few people have
asked questions of private mail and open so ill try to answer the
ones i remember here. My horses are wormed every 6 weeks, normally
with EQUIMAX wormer. They are all up to date with their vaccinations.
All other horses NOT wormed with BIMECTIN are all fine. The weanling
is still down but breathing slowly, no nasal discharge, ok heart
beat, no sweating. The wormer is made in CANADA and distrubited in
both the USA and CANADA I have seen it advertised in both COUNTRY
SUPPLY and JEFFEIRS EQUINE catalogs. My horses have had ivermectin
based wormers all their lives. There are no allergys in the
bloodlines to anything, as far as i know and they have been on
ivermectin all their lives with no problems.
The lot number is 5J019 The 0 is either a number or the letter O its
hard to tell. the EXP is 07 SEP IF ANYONE HAS THIS LOT OR HAS USED
THIS LOT, PLEASE CONTACT ME ASAP. we are trying to investigate this
and need all the help I can get, and IF it is a bad batch we NEED to
know what other horses have been effected, how and when they where
effected, etc. So PLEASE contact me if you have had or know of
any problems with this batch number OR if you have used this batch
and had NO problems, we need to know the scope of all this.. I was
told there are THOUSANDS of doses made per batch, I dont know for
sure, but if even 50 -100 are produced and it is bad, we all need
to know asap. If you know of anyone having a horse get sick or
dying also please have them contact me (if they used a wormer or
product made by this company) IF it is a bad batch im sure there are
other sick horses out there, but they either havent connected it to
the wormer (possibly!) or they havent said anything to anyone about
it. Again thankyou all for your support, it means alot to us at
this time, I think it will take awhile for the full horror of it all
to sink in.The worst thing is we where doing the right thing for our
horses, and they died (possibly) because of it. It makes one never
want to worm again.....
Kerry
Again, this is forwarded to everyone out there.
Message Attached::::::::
We have had quite a tragedy at our ranch the last few days, and
after talking to my attorney she gave me the go ahead to tell others
about it. I wormed 5 of my horses with BIMECTIN wormer on
WEDNESDAY, when I went out to give them breakfast on THURSDAY, they
looked sick. My vet was contacted. Long story short, by FRIDAY
they where down and could not get up, and by saturday and sunday
they DIED. The other horses wormed the same day with a DIFFRENT
wormer are FINE. These horses had the same feed, water, hay etc, the
ONLY diffrence in the horses was the WORMER. My vet after seeing
them told me he HAS seen this BEFORE. A MASSIVE overdose of
wormer. Normally a batch of wormer made too strong at the factory.
THIS IS ONLY A SUSPICION ON MY PART. I AM NOT ACCUSSING THE COMPANY,
I AM ONLY PUTTING OUT MY STORY TO LET PEOPLE MADE THEIR OWN
DECISIONS. The necropsys will be preformed on the horses and the
wormers that i still have from the case with the same lot numbers
will be going to independant labs for testing. We lost, 2 young
stallions, 1 PREG mare (due in june) 1 yearling, and 1 weanling is
still breathing as I type but we expect her to die.
Kerry
Second email:
First I would like to thank everyone for their kind words and
support, our whole family is devestated both the two legged ones and
the four legged ones. My doc wanted to give me a sedetive today, but
I have pulled myself together a bit, I pulled the tarp back to pat
them one last time,and it appears the coyotes had come and their
eyes and lips where missing.I lost it for a bit, and our neighbour
is a doc and came over, I have settled into shock the doc says, at
the moment I feel both sad, numb and VERY angry. I few people have
asked questions of private mail and open so ill try to answer the
ones i remember here. My horses are wormed every 6 weeks, normally
with EQUIMAX wormer. They are all up to date with their vaccinations.
All other horses NOT wormed with BIMECTIN are all fine. The weanling
is still down but breathing slowly, no nasal discharge, ok heart
beat, no sweating. The wormer is made in CANADA and distrubited in
both the USA and CANADA I have seen it advertised in both COUNTRY
SUPPLY and JEFFEIRS EQUINE catalogs. My horses have had ivermectin
based wormers all their lives. There are no allergys in the
bloodlines to anything, as far as i know and they have been on
ivermectin all their lives with no problems.
The lot number is 5J019 The 0 is either a number or the letter O its
hard to tell. the EXP is 07 SEP IF ANYONE HAS THIS LOT OR HAS USED
THIS LOT, PLEASE CONTACT ME ASAP. we are trying to investigate this
and need all the help I can get, and IF it is a bad batch we NEED to
know what other horses have been effected, how and when they where
effected, etc. So PLEASE contact me if you have had or know of
any problems with this batch number OR if you have used this batch
and had NO problems, we need to know the scope of all this.. I was
told there are THOUSANDS of doses made per batch, I dont know for
sure, but if even 50 -100 are produced and it is bad, we all need
to know asap. If you know of anyone having a horse get sick or
dying also please have them contact me (if they used a wormer or
product made by this company) IF it is a bad batch im sure there are
other sick horses out there, but they either havent connected it to
the wormer (possibly!) or they havent said anything to anyone about
it. Again thankyou all for your support, it means alot to us at
this time, I think it will take awhile for the full horror of it all
to sink in.The worst thing is we where doing the right thing for our
horses, and they died (possibly) because of it. It makes one never
want to worm again.....
Kerry
Again, this is forwarded to everyone out there.