The Legend of Barry Jenkins
I'm going to get the Ivermectin pour on for BJ. It's a 250ml bottle from Amazon. There are several reviews where it was used on guinea pigs and it was advised here on this forum. What I need help with is exactly how much to put on him. He's a 3 lb piggie or 1364 grams. If I read the Ivermectin page on this site correctly, I should be putting between . 0625 and .0725 cc on him.
Did I read that right? .0625 cc is for a 1250 gram piggie and .0725 is for a 1500 gram one. BJ is 1364 grams, so I should use .068 cc. Is that correct? Also can I apply it to the thin spot on his back if he can reach it, or will it kill mites all over his body by putting it behind his ears?
Did I read that right? .0625 cc is for a 1250 gram piggie and .0725 is for a 1500 gram one. BJ is 1364 grams, so I should use .068 cc. Is that correct? Also can I apply it to the thin spot on his back if he can reach it, or will it kill mites all over his body by putting it behind his ears?
- Sef
- I dissent.
If this is the 0.5% solution (the blue pour-on formula), the dose would be roughly 0.14cc's:
https://www.guinealynx.info/topical_iver ... ur-on.html
It's a small amount, but you can put a little on the spot itself and the rest behind both ears. You'll need a 1ml syringe (no needle) to dose it correctly.
The blue stuff looks like this:
https://www.guinealynx.info/topical_iver ... ur-on.html
It's a small amount, but you can put a little on the spot itself and the rest behind both ears. You'll need a 1ml syringe (no needle) to dose it correctly.
The blue stuff looks like this:
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Here are the dosing charts:
The 0.5% solution: https://www.guinealynx.info/topical_iver ... ur-on.html
The 1% solution: https://www.guinealynx.info/topical_ivermectin.html
The 0.5% solution: https://www.guinealynx.info/topical_iver ... ur-on.html
The 1% solution: https://www.guinealynx.info/topical_ivermectin.html
That's the stuff I looked at on Amazon. 250ml of the 5mg per ml. I'm checking the feed store to see if they have any in stock. If they don't, I'll order it. I can't dose him until Friday anyway because he had an oral dose, so it'll be fine. I don't want to overdose him and add to the problem.
I came across the photo of BJ that was taken before I adopted him and it clearly shows that he had the mites at that time.
Anyway, his medicine is on the way. It's been nice for the last two days, so I'm getting back into his good graces by letting him outside to eat fresh grass. Just in time to start making him angry at me again when I have to put the Ivermectin drops on him.
Anyway, his medicine is on the way. It's been nice for the last two days, so I'm getting back into his good graces by letting him outside to eat fresh grass. Just in time to start making him angry at me again when I have to put the Ivermectin drops on him.
The Ivermectin came today, so I'll be treating BJ this evening after his fleece bedding is changed. I read somewhere that you can put a small drop in each corner of his cage. Is that true?
Ok. I will put a very small amount directly on the spot and the rest behind his ears like Sef suggested. He only gets .014 ml, so we're talking about a minute dose.
Yeah, one too many decimal places there LOL. He's holding steady at 1364 grams, so he got .14 ml. It went well and he didn't mind it too much. Just a little tickle behind the ears, a head shake and it was done.