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Best preventative for ticks on mature dogs??
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<blockquote data-quote="Commercialfarmer" data-source="post: 1073743" data-attributes="member: 14544"><p>I've used ivermectin to treat my dogs. It is cheap, unless you over do it and then it can easily be deadly. Remember, you're talking 1000 lb animals down to around 50 lbs and difference in sensitivities.</p><p></p><p>If you read, the accepted heart worm prevention dose is 6 micrograms per kilogram from several sources. 50 lb dog is 22.6 kilograms. 22.6 * 6 mcg= 136 mcg</p><p></p><p>paste is 1.8% or 18 miligram or 18000 micrograms per cc. So you can see it would only take a fraction for heartworms (0.0075 cc) and would be easy to give an excessive amount to a dog that isn't extra sensitive. </p><p></p><p>The 1% injection is 10 mg or 10,000 micrograms per cc, so the dose would be 0.014 cc's. Those are very small volumes that need to be measured. </p><p></p><p>There are variables, but I believe many liquids are estimated to have about 20 drops per 1 cc, or .05 cc per drop. So even 1 drop would be about 3 times more than necessary, at least for that dose calculated. Decrease the size of the dog and it is even more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Commercialfarmer, post: 1073743, member: 14544"] I've used ivermectin to treat my dogs. It is cheap, unless you over do it and then it can easily be deadly. Remember, you're talking 1000 lb animals down to around 50 lbs and difference in sensitivities. If you read, the accepted heart worm prevention dose is 6 micrograms per kilogram from several sources. 50 lb dog is 22.6 kilograms. 22.6 * 6 mcg= 136 mcg paste is 1.8% or 18 miligram or 18000 micrograms per cc. So you can see it would only take a fraction for heartworms (0.0075 cc) and would be easy to give an excessive amount to a dog that isn't extra sensitive. The 1% injection is 10 mg or 10,000 micrograms per cc, so the dose would be 0.014 cc's. Those are very small volumes that need to be measured. There are variables, but I believe many liquids are estimated to have about 20 drops per 1 cc, or .05 cc per drop. So even 1 drop would be about 3 times more than necessary, at least for that dose calculated. Decrease the size of the dog and it is even more. [/QUOTE]
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