Re: [IceHorses] Ivermectin

2007-11-16 Thread Janice McDonald
janice trivia, no exaggeration: When a river floods, fire ants cling onto one another and go with the flow so they can migrate as a nest to a new spot. An old man told me when he grew up in Elba Alabama a big flood came and his parents owned a store downtown so they all gathered with many townspe

RE: [IceHorses] Ivermectin

2007-11-15 Thread Cherie Mascis
>>Do you have fire ants at your elevation? No fire ants, but yellow jackets galore! Cherie

RE: [IceHorses] Ivermectin

2007-11-15 Thread Karen Thomas
>>> Our bots just came later this year at 4200 feet. I think they were waiting for the heat to pass. We got them in late Oct. Funny, the bot flies are placing the eggs further up on the horses-upper legs, and shoulders. Do you have fire ants at your elevation? I'm only grabbing at straws, but s

RE: [IceHorses] Ivermectin

2007-11-15 Thread Cherie Mascis
Our bots just came later this year at 4200 feet. I think they were waiting for the heat to pass. We got them in late Oct. Funny, the bot flies are placing the eggs further up on the horses-upper legs, and shoulders. Cherie Western North Carolina Lilja, Roka (Icelandics) and Tyra (Fjord)

Re: [IceHorses] Ivermectin

2007-11-15 Thread Laree Shulman
On 11/14/07, Karen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Jeffersequine.com has ivermectin for $2.89. Judy > > > I still rotate with an ivermectin product, but has anyone else noticed that > the number of botflies has dramatically decreased the past couple of years? > I literally haven't seen an

RE: [IceHorses] Ivermectin

2007-11-15 Thread Karen Thomas
Good grief. We have to pay around £8 - $16 - for it over here. Wow. When we first got horses, we had to buy the brand name, Zimectrin if we wanted to use ivermectin, because there weren't many generic brands (any? - maybe it was still under patent?) and we had to pay about $13-14 per tube

Re: [IceHorses] Ivermectin

2007-11-15 Thread Mic Rushen
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:39:54 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >Jeffersequine.com has ivermectin for $2.89. Good grief. We have to pay around £8 - $16 - for it over here. Mic Mic (Michelle) Rushen --- So

RE: [IceHorses] Ivermectin

2007-11-14 Thread Karen Thomas
>>> Jeffersequine.com has ivermectin for $2.89. Judy I still rotate with an ivermectin product, but has anyone else noticed that the number of botflies has dramatically decreased the past couple of years? I literally haven't seen any bott eggs this year, and only a few last year. (Last year was