My horse is perfectly healthy but has upped its Zinc, C and D3 intake recently. He just got some dewormer in. Is the recommendation to go ahead and take some or wait until symptoms develop? I have found a lot of dosing recommendations but it seems to be split on when to actually start deworming. I guess my fear is if I deworm my horse before he actually has symptoms, it might make it less effective if/when he develops symptoms? Thoughts?
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Your horse will benefit from taking a bi-weekly dose as a prophylaxis against covid
My two cents is that you are mixing three things together. One, Ed (as in Mr) can take it prophylactically for covid; two, he can take it if he has covid symptoms; and three, he can take it for the pure joy of knocking out parasites, because... they're PARASITES!
The dosage for each is different. This is not medical advice. Just a clarification of the uses.
My horse is waiting until he shows signs of worms, but then he is also on a good range of quality supplements also, not because of the coof but was previously injured and needs to keep the right vitamins etc up.
But each horse is different, perhaps worm your horse for a couple of weeks and see how he\she\it ;) feels?
Two different things. Your horse needs to be dewormed. Then you might get your horse on a monthly dose for Kung-flu. I have dewormed my horse but I am not giving dose for Kung-flu. I am saving the reminder until symptoms or exposure.
This is exactly what I've done.
This horse took it just to see if it was safe to administer to my family in a time of emergency. A month latter this horse is fine with no side affects since taking a 200# dose. I feel confident that if I or my horse family did develop symptoms of "hay fever" that we would be safe taking it.
I think it would just keep it from developing in the first place. Follow the flccc protocol on their site for dosing. 0.2mg/kg take on day 1 and 3, then weekly for 10 weeks..after that you can do once ever 2 weeks if wanted.
It might be okay to use now and later. If your horse has parasites unrelated to coof worms that are causing symptoms that your horse has just been living with. Might be beneficial now.
And then use later in case your horse develops coof worms.
You can give it to him before symptoms show up. I'm not sure how much a horse should take, but I take 30mg twice a week for prevention.
IVM has a low toxicity rate, and while not completely researched... it appears to be safe enough for 60mg a day for 6 months. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10428194.2020.1786559
In case you or anyone in your family wants some, you can find a doctor here. https://covid19criticalcare.com/guide-for-this-website/how-to-get-ivermectin/
Careful with CVS and Walgreens because they don't like to fill IVM prescriptions for Covid treatments. IOW they want to play doctor even though you didn't ask for a second opinion.
BTW be careful letting the horse near the mares. Apparently semen is more fertile when using IVM. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0093691X01004435