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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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