cost effective panacur purge

["Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

This only becomes cost-effective if you have multiple (like, maybe three or
four) horses, or can co-op together with some friends----but if you can,
then go to a store that sells vet supplies.  You don't have to actually be a
DVM to buy *some* of the stuff in there.  You can get a 1000ml/cc bottle of
fenbendazole suspension liquid for about $95.  Fenbendazole is the active
ingredient in Panacur, made by the same company and everything.  The label
will have detailed instructions, but a dose for a 1000-lb horse is about 23
cc, which you can squirt into their mouths using one of those 60 cc
electrolyte dosing syringes we all have lying around (or buy one from the
same store).  A 1000-ml bottle will contain roughly 43 doses at $2.20/dose.
So if you double-dosed for 5 days, your cost would be about $22 for the
5-day "purge".  Not bad.

It has a year or two shelf life, so if you kept it in your frig, doesn't
have to be used all at once.

Susan G

----- Original Message -----
From: Sullivan's <greymare@jps.net>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Cc: <woa@stormnet.com>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:15 PM
Subject: RC: Re: Quest Reaction


> With all the negative remarks regarding Quest, I have been looking into
> Panacur as our thin mare was diagnosed with encysted stryongles.
>
> I'm pissed and confused by all the different prices and dosages on the
> Panacur (aka Safeguard)  You can get an individual dose, through Jeffers,
> for $5, to dose an 1100 horse.  Figure it out, a double dose for 5 days
will
> cost $50, and there will probably be some left over., as most of us with
> Arabs have lighter horses.  The cheapest I have found the Panacur Power
Pak
> (Valley vet) is $52-you sure aren't gettting any discount for buying the
> power pak.  Of course, the cost to the vets is $38.
>
> To further confuse you, you can get a 3.2 tube, which doses 4 1,000 lb
> horses, for $15.95, making the cost buying it that way more like
> $40 to do the Panacur purge.
>
> You can buy a 10.2 oz cattle dose for $35.95; the applicator gun will cost
> $12; still cheaper than doing the Power Pak, and much more cost effective
> for me, double dosing 6 darn horses to be safe!!
>
> You can also buy granules to add to feed, a box (comparable to Power pak)
is
> $32.
>
> Anyway you look at it, the MOST expensive way to buy the stuff is the
Power
> Pak!!!
>
> Getting back to individual doses, some are in oz's, and some in
> grams.......darn hard to figure unless you call Intervet
>
> Karen
>
>
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