ivomec injectable orally and some permethrin garden spray topically when needed. Read active ingredients and apply. No way I would pay vet prices for treating 11 dogs. Ivomec will kill some ticks that are attached but residual not very long. Tapeworms really only thing missed and praziquantel generic can be used.

My labs would not eat the other meds, no matter what I did to disguise the meds. Nexguard/heartgard, they gobble down.

I used to give my dogs Ivomec for heartworm preventative. Haven't done so lately, because we don't really have heartworms here and I got out of the habit. Your dosage is correct, I'd give 1/2 cc of ivomec injectable (for cattle) to a 50 lb hound. I would suck up half a cc of Ivomec, then suck the rest of the syringe full of soda pop and squirt it in the dogs mouth. Dogs may not care for the taste of Ivomec, but given with a pop mixer I've never had one that didn't like it. As stated, don't give it to collie dogs, there are quite a few medicines that collies and cats can't take (maybe they're related?) that other dogs can. Ivomec is not nearly as poisonous as some let on, 1cc would not harm your average 40-50 lb dog, but it would be a serious overdose to a 14 lber. Not sure if it would really harm it, but I wouldn't try it if I liked the dog much. Years ago I had a dog with mange, the genetic kind, (I don't remember if that is demadectic or sarcoptic, I'm sure Smash can tell us) and my vet told me that at that time they only had one approved medicine that worked on that type of mange. And the FDA had taken it off the market to do further testing, and he was unable to get any. He recommended a non-approved treatment he had had good luck with. 3/4 cc of Ivomec (45 lb dog) given orally, daily for 60 days. It cured the mange, that never reappeared for the remainder of the dogs life, and with no side effects.

I'm assuming MTHunter is using a medicine with a diluted dose of Ivermectin in it, not the injectable cattle Ivomec.

I've done the heavy dose for mange and cleared it up only to have it return. My understanding is the genetic is an immune response or more properly a lack of that can be triggered by stress.

In my Beagle Club, we use 1/10 cc per 10 lbs of dog. works great, recommended by a Vet in the Hounds and Hunting Magazine.

My understanding was the same. I was told that often times as they mature their immunity will raise, if it appears/returns at 3+ years old it will have a good likelihood of being something they will fight lifelong. The only dog I've ever had with it was treated and cleared up by the time she was two, and never had a reoccurance.