Epidural analgesia with Xylazine/ Novocain mixture in local Iraqi goats

The present trail has been designed to investigate the effect of the Xylazine/Novocain mixture in producing effective safety analgesia by caudal epidural injection in goats. Caudal epidural injection of Xylazine HCL 2 % (0.01mg/kg BW), Novocain 2% (3.5mg/kg BW) and mixture of Xylazine / Novocain (0.01 mg/kg BW, 3.5mg/kg BW), respectively have been injected at 2% concentration for each solution. The results of this trail shown that, caudal epidural injection of Xylazine, Novocain alone or in a combination of both of them produced an effective and safe analgesia in goats and the efficiency of the Xylazine / Novocain mixture was much better for longer duration than that for each drug alone. The mixture of Xylazine / Novocain led to complete loss of pain reflexes at the caudal region, while the animals remain in standing position. An opened method of surgical castration has been performed on two male goats with complete loss of pain reflexes during this procedure; we recommended the using of this mixture clinically.