doublebarrel
Senior Member
My feed store has Ivermectin for cows at around $35.00. How would you mix it to give 1cc per 25 lbs for heart worms for my dogs? Would it not make a lot more than paying $35.00 a bottle at vets? Thanks, BB
I have been using the liquid Ivermectin for my Dogs for over 20 years and have had no problems with heart worms in my Dogs! Its the same stuff they use in heart guard! Its much cheaper than buying it already mixed from the Vets office when you buy it from the farm supply store and many times cheaper than heart guard!
Do not give the Ivomec straight out of the bottle to your Dogs, you will give them a huge overdose and it could kill them. Also Ivomec does not mix well with water, I use Propolene Glycol to mix mine with, thats what my vet uses!
A Mixture of 9 to 1, 9 cc of Propolene Glycol to 1 cc Ivomec is good, give them 1 tenth of a cc per 10 pounds of body weight if you use that mixture once every month! You can mix up enough in a small bottle to last for months! Or you can mix the Ivomec 18 cc propolene glycol to 1 cc Ivomec and give them 1cc per 40 pounds of body weight! Actually the vet I use now recommends that dosage!
So the 9 to 1 mixture 1cc would be sufficient for a one hundred pound Dog, the 18 to 1 mixture, 2 and 1/2 cc's per hundred pounds of body weight.
Hope this helps...
forget the proplene glycol its not necessary
Heres how to do this correctly
buy 1% sterile solution Ivomec at the feed store (do not use any other ivomec blend like Ivomec plus ect the plus has something in it not for dogs)
now go to the drugstore and purchase a couple syringes buy the one CC syringes normally used by diabetics. They are marked in 10ths making this easy to do. buy some needles also
With the 1% solution the max dose is 1/10 cc per 10 lbs body weight this dose will kill other parasites also, if your only concern is heartworms you can use half that and be covered ( I use the full 1/10th cc per 10lbs on my dogs).
Simply put the needle on the syringe draw in enough air to replace the fliud you will take out and sqirt the air in the bottle then draw out the amount for your dogs weight, if the dog weighs 40 lbs you should use 4/10ths of a cc.
now remove the needle and squirt it in the back of the dogs mouth, dont inject it give it orally every thirty days
if you have more questions ask
Do not give this to herding dogs like collies or sight hounds like grey hounds every other breed I am aware of its fine
forget the proplene glycol its not necessary
Heres how to do this correctly
buy 1% sterile solution Ivomec at the feed store (do not use any other ivomec blend like Ivomec plus ect the plus has something in it not for dogs)
now go to the drugstore and purchase a couple syringes buy the one CC syringes normally used by diabetics. They are marked in 10ths making this easy to do. buy some needles also
With the 1% solution the max dose is 1/10 cc per 10 lbs body weight this dose will kill other parasites also, if your only concern is heartworms you can use half that and be covered ( I use the full 1/10th cc per 10lbs on my dogs).
Simply put the needle on the syringe draw in enough air to replace the fliud you will take out and sqirt the air in the bottle then draw out the amount for your dogs weight, if the dog weighs 40 lbs you should use 4/10ths of a cc.
now remove the needle and squirt it in the back of the dogs mouth, dont inject it give it orally every thirty days
if you have more questions ask
Do not give this to herding dogs like collies or sight hounds like grey hounds every other breed I am aware of its fine
Dumb question here..... Have a bottle of Promectin E......... says its liquid Ivermectin for horses.
Is this not the right stuff???? I was suprised at all the different types of Ivermec................ I grabbed this bottle. Is it the wrong one?
http://www.drugs.com/vet/promectin-e-liquid-for-horses.html
I wouldn't because it has all those other ingredients in it. I'm not saying it wont but I have no experience with it.
Give it to someone with horses and buy the correct stuff
http://www.drugs.com/vet/promectin-e-liquid-for-horses.html
I wouldn't because it has all those other ingredients in it. I'm not saying it wont but I have no experience with it.
Give it to someone with horses and buy the correct stuff
I agree Tuffdawg I was always told to use the 1% sterile solution only.