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Location: Dearing, GA | Is Panacur Power Pack worth the $65? How do y'all power pack your horses?
Edited by Just Let Me Run 2014-02-24 8:26 PM
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Location: Mississippi | I use the safeguard liquid goat wormer. There is a chart you can google with the dosage for different weights for a powerpac dose. Usually takes most of two bottles to do a regular sized horse. I do see results from it and usually do any new horse we get. It's about half the cost of the panacur.
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| Yes! I had a horse on a regular worming schedule and he just didn't look right. Used the powerpac and it helped him amazingly, some visible worms in his stool but mainly he looked healthy not long after. |
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| wildride - 2014-02-24 8:44 PM
I use the safeguard liquid goat wormer. There is a chart you can google with the dosage for different weights for a powerpac dose. Usually takes most of two bottles to do a regular sized horse. I do see results from it and usually do any new horse we get. It's about half the cost of the panacur.
This is what we do too - use the goat stuff. :) |
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Location: Texas | I have used the power pac in the past and it worked well. Make sure you use probiotics afterwards to help promote good digestion |
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Location: Dearing, GA | barrelbasher - 2014-02-25 12:36 PM
I have used the power pac in the past and it worked well. Make sure you use probiotics afterwards to help promote good digestion
Thanks. Once you power pack do you go back to your regular worming schedule? I usually worm with paste four times a year and rotate which I use according to the season, so after I power pack I wouldn't worm again for another three months. Correct? |
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Location: North MS | The handy chart- http://www.hoof-smart.com/2010/02/16/horse-health/using-safe-guard-cattle-dewormer-to-deworm-your-horse/ |
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Location: Texas | Valleyvet.com has it for $57.95 right now.
I've used the liquids before but I just bought the power pack. It's just easier to use for me.
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Location: The South | Hey I'm glad you asked this, I just started my boys on it today. I've been really nervous about it for some reason. I've never done one before. I got one safeguard power dose pack and then I got a 209 gram tube of the cattle paste and I'm going to squirt it into the syringes when they're empty. I saw the goat liquid and remembered reading a thread about it, but I just stuck with the pack to make it less stressful for me. The cattle tube was $45 so it saved a little. |
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| Would you take or feed your kids some type of old fashioned medication at 10X's their normal dose ?? and then have to follow it up in 10 days with zimectrin and then Quest in 30 days for it to be affective?? |
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| I don't always see a difference from using the Power-Pak, but sometimes I can see a physical difference afterwards. |
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Location: Montana | I'm a fan of the Power Pac - if a horse needs it, it will really help. Generally I just use the Safeguard cattle wormer with the big noisy dosing gun to save a few bucks. And every few summers we'll run a bag of cow mineral with SAfegurad in it through the pasture horses too - it's a little more expensive that just worming them once but I figure it's kind of like a powerpac for them. I do NOT use that for a horse I have reason to think needs a PowerPac.
Of course I would never recommend off-label use of any medication. :-)
However, sometimes I do use the expensive, brand name Power Pac.
I had a really tough looking two year old filly show up here once years ago . . . so bad I actually had the vet out. She (the vet) was sensible and knew we'd do what we could if it was practical. She said we could either do a bunch of expensive diagnostics first or we could treat her for all the likely problems and just do bloodwork looking for organ failure to start off. Since nasty worm load and ulcers were both possible (and not mutually exclusive) she recommended the PowerPac brand package. She said there is a little evidence that the binder used in Panacur brand horse wormer is helpful (but certainly not curative) on horse ulcers. In that extreme case, I did use the brand name one.
Did it work? Well, the mare looks great now, but we tried every thing we could with her to get her going. I think that helped and I'd do it again that way in that circumstance - especially because she wasn't even wanting to eat. She'd leave grain. Pick at alfalfa a little. To me that said possible tummy ache.
Years later a wonderful, kind friend of ours saved (by buying) a nice foundation bred stud that was emaciated. We had a better setup that year and took the horse for a couple of months. We did the five days of double dose Safeguard with him because while he might have had ulcers, he would eat what you gave him and never acted lethargic or depressed. We fed him small bits of alfalfa every couple hours round the clock for a while and we were all nervous, but he looks great now.
So that's kind of an idea how we pick which to use. The main thing is if there's a chance the horse needs it, it is worth a try.
By the way, since I brought up starving horses, which wasn't the original post, remember not to worm them immediately as you are changing/increasing their feed. We waited a bit on both AND we knew they had been wormed somewhat regularly. If you have one with a really, really bad worm load you have to be careful or you'll kill the horse. Ask your vet.
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Location: The South | Okay I have to add something...I just figured out today that you can shove the tip of the 57 gram syringe into the tip of the cattle syringe and suck out the paste to refill the 57 gram one! I was so excited. I don't have the gun for the cattle tube so this was super easy.
Also, it's a 290 gram tube not 209. I can't type sometimes. |
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