I’m sorry for the Dumb and Dumber movie quote but I had to. A recent thread on here about mink and worms has got me thinking. I’ve lived my whole life on the farm and skun and butchered all sorts of animals, cut myself many times and I got to wondering ….Well, do I have worms? Just wondering how many of you guys have ever treated yourself out of precaution or actually confirmed that you did have parasites after dealing with animals?

We take a shot of pyrantel at work when initiating new crew. Figure that takes care of it. Tastes like pancake batter.

“You sold my dead bird to a blind kid?!? Lloyd, Petey didn’t even have a head!!!”

“……..Harry, I took CARE of it…..”

Almost every time I worm cattle I end with a touch of ivermectin. My brother had some type of parasite and wormed himself with ivermectin pour on which got rid of it but I can't remember what he had.

Not worms but my son had Cat Scratch Fever. Yes its real not just a song. Got him a swollen gland removed and us a trip to the infectious disease doctor. Go figure he had done some trapping in his youth. I ask could my son have gotten the cat scratch fever from critters i dragged home. Answer to that was no. Most likely got it from playing with barn cats when stopped to talk to farmers where I was trapping.
This same doctor recommended I get per exposure rabies vac. Which I then did.

Mac

I have seriously considered deworming. It's hard to find solid information on how to do it.

I wouldn't give medical advice but look into ivermectin. If you use a "pour on" you need to clean your skin first as it will take anything on your skin into it

Ive never been tested but like you have butchered and skinned thousands of animals.
Did have one ringworm mark on my thigh probably 25 years ago and got rid of it with a topical over the counter cream

Reading your post, you are a amazing lady......jk

"Big Gulps, huh !? All right ! Welp, see ya later !"

Tatiana makes a very compelling point. And I can see that.

That is what I've been researching. I'm nervous that I'll get the wrong iver.

Giardia was bad enough that gets your attention but a simple cheap fix for it. I thought it was lead poisoning from reloading for trap shooting.

What made you think lead poisoning, I load about 3k shells a year for trap myself

I use the apple flavored ivermectin from tsc, it’s a white paste, taste like caulking to me.. but it works.. squirt a glob on the back of your hand , the size of a wad of bubble gum.. lick it off.. do it each day until the tube is empty.. a friend of mine, actually found a pharmacist, that would sell him ivermectin capsules, for like three dollars apiece. Before he took them, his health had deteriorated so bad, that he was about to sell his trailer truck and try to get on some type of disability. Now, after taking the ivermectin, he’s healthy as a horse…. lol.. no pun intended he contracted some type of parasite while on a cruise…

I do the horse paste every few months, use the same dosage as for horses, it's by weight and the plunger is calibrated to that....

I usually do 2 doses 2 weeks apart, kills what's maybe there and the second dose kills whatever hatched from existing eggs that's not affected by the med....

If you have any, could you share a picture of the label. Also, any side effects?

Just wormed my horses over the weekend. The mink thread was giving impulsive thoughts to shoot some down my yapper as well haha

I figured every body had worms , most kids i grew up with did, till they got big enough to chew tobacco then they just craped them out and got healthy.

Had worms a couple times as a kid. Went barefoot most of the time. Make your butt itch. Things crawl out on it. Crawl back in too. Ever seen a wormy dog scootch its butt on the ground?

Obviously something was not right so it was one thing I had checked out when I went to the Doc.

Probably had giardia too. Drank a lot of creek water. Moms cure for scours was Pepto-Bismol. After while you get over it. I think you also develop some immunity.