>>Strongid C is the daily wormer you refer to. My vet, who is a 3-day eventer
>>& fox hunter, highly recommends it. I asked about any possible negatives &
>>he said there were none. And it can be used even with competition horses.
>>It costs only pennies a day--makes sense if you have a situation where the
>>feed is carefully controlled--may not be suitable in pasture-board situation.
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>I looked up the price of Strongid-C. From KV Vet Supply (they usually have
>pretty competetive prices), it is $47.99 for a 25# container. Plus 27 lbs.
>UPS charges. You would feed each horse 4 oz. per day every day. One
>container would last one horse approximately 100 days (16 oz. = 1 lb.),
>which makes the cost work out to approx. $14.37 per month per horse (plus
>shipping). If you were feeding four horses it would cost you $57.48 per
>month. I would consider using this product if it weren't so expensive, but
>heck, I'm not spending anywhere near that to worm my horses every six weeks.
>Does anybody else out there have any idea if this product is available at a
>lower price that I quoted here?
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>Karen
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>Oh, you'd still have to you an ivermectin product twice a year, wouldn't you
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