Dear Murray:
 
>The stated dose was 0.4ml per 1kg body weight so I rounded it off on the
>higher, not the lower.  For example: for a .800gm ferret the dose worked
>out to be 0.32 ml.  I gave 0.35.  For the males I went up a touch more for
>example a 1.350kg ferret got 0.60ml rather than 0.54.  It certainly didn't
>cause any strange effects on these two ferrets.
 
The dosage for ivermectin is 0.4 mg/kg body weight.  Which works if your
particular solution is of a concentration of 1 mg/ml - do you know the
concentration of the product that you are using in mg/ml?
 
It's probably 1 mg/ml, but sometimes we see people using higher
concentrations so they don't have to administer as much....
 
With kindest regards,
Bruce Williams, DVM
[Posted in FML issue 3329]