1. Drugs Used to Treat and/or Prevent Coccidiosis in Livestock and Poultry
Not all drugs listed below are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in sheep and goats. The mention of non-
approved products is for informational purposes only. Their use constitutes extra-label drug use and is only legal under the advice of
a licensed veterinarian in the context of a valid veterinary-patient-client relationship.
Drug Approved
Trade Name Specificity Labeled Dosage Withdrawal Time
Ingredient Species
For treatment of coccidiosis
shipping fever complex,
Beef and non-
Albon® 12.5% bacterial pneumonia, Cattle: 7 days slaughter
Sulfadimethoxine lactating dairy cattle 1.18-2.36 g/gallon
solution calf diphtheria, foot rot, Poultry: 5 days slaughter
Poultry
and coccidiosis (poultry)
Corid 20% Cattle
Amprolium Treatment of coccidiosis 4 oz/50 gal water Cattle: 24 hours
Soluble Powder Chickens, turkeys
Corid 9.6% For the control and
Cattle: 1 day slaughter
solution Amprolium Cattle, Poultry treatment of outbreaks 5 mg/1 kg
Poultry: 0 days slaughter
Amprovine of Coccidiosis
shipping fever complex,
bacterial pneumonia, 1.18-2.36 g/gallon Cattle: 7 days slaughter
Di-Methox Sulfadimethoxine Cattle, Poultry calf diphtheria, and foot 2.5 g/100 lbs. day 1 Chicken and Turkey: 5 days
rot and coccidiosis 1.25 g/100 lbs. day 2-5 slaughter
(poultry)
Non-lactating cattle: 10
For the control and
20% Sulfaquinoxoline days
Cattle, Poultry treatment of outbreaks 1 oz./10 gallon water
Sulfaquinoxoline Sodium Turkey and Chicken: 10
of coccidiosis
days
Shipping fever, bacterial
Beef and non- scours, foot rot, calf
100 mg /lb body
Sulmet® oblet Sulfamethazine lactating dairy cattle diptheria, acute mastitis, Cattle: 10 days
weight
Horses acute metritis and
coccidiosis
shipping fever complex,
bacterial scours, foot rot, Cattle: 10 days slaughter
Sulmet®12.5% Cattle, swine 112.5 mg/lb - day 1.
Sulfamethazine calf diphtheria, acute Swine: 15 days slaughter
solution Poultry 56.25/mg/lb
mastitis metritis and Poultry: 10 days
coccidiosis (poultry)

2. For prevention of coccidiosis
Corid 20% Cattle
Amprolium Prevention of coccidiosis 4 oz/100 gal water Cattle: 24 hours
Soluble Powder chickens, turkeys
Beef, dairy heifers Eimeria ovina
Poultry, Rabbits E. crandallis
E. ovinoidalis All species: 0 days
Bovatec® Premix Lasalocid Sodium 20-30 g/ton feed
Sheep in confinement (E. ninakohlyakimovae) slaughter
E. parva, and E.
TOXIC TO EQUINES intricata
Beef and non-lactating E. ovinoidalis, E.
dairy cattle, chickens crandallis, E. parva, E.
All species: 0 days
Deccox® Decoquinate bakuensis, E. 13.6 g/ton feed
slaughter
Non-lactating goats christenseni, and E.
Non-lactating lambs ninakohlyakimovae
Beef, dairy heifers
Eimeria crandallis
Monensin cattle: 0 days slaughter
Rumensin® Non-lactating goats E. christenseni 20 g/ton feed
Sodium goats: 0 days slaughter
E. ninakohlyakimovae
TOXIC TO EQUINES
Created by Susan Schoenian. Last updated 24 June 2009.
Source: Product labels and FDA Approved Animal Drug Products Online Database System @
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/AnimalDrugsAtFDA/.
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