➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Over here they recommend it as well. They also recommended it in Maine and NH when I lived there.

I think that it all depends on your location on what the vets think. I might be wrong, but I have noticed that vets recommend different things in different areas.

All of the vets that this person has seen could all be influenced by each other if you get what I'm saying.

I live way up here

 

[FortCluck]

I live way up here
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I've been to Canada a couple times. Maybe it's different in Canada what they recommend. I know every country has their own recommendations.

It's sort of like food... Everywhere has pretty much banned red dye except for the US and a few other countries.

Maybe Canada doesn't recommend the use of heartworm preventatives... Pretty interesting, I'm going to research a bit today.

 

[FortCluck]

@Tesumph how are the dogs today?

 

[Kiki]

Thanks! I have all that on hand. Do you need to add water or anything?

I'll go throw it in now

No I do not add water but I've also never made it in a crock pot. Lol

I've made it in a pressure cooker but I usually just cook it on the stove in a pot.

 

[FortCluck]

No I do not add water but I've also never made it in a crock pot. Lol

I've made it in a pressure cooker but I usually just cook it on the stove in a pot.

I try the crockpot and see what happens

 

[FortCluck]

Here's the apple cake recipe.

 

[Molpet]

I have a question.

My vets won't give me heartworm medication for Puckers. They say that mosquitoes don't live long enough here. Does that make sense? A mosquito is a mosquito right? (I've had more than 1 vet say this)

Could be true
heartworm med is the same as the livestock wormer, just more accurate dose. https://www.cuteness.com/article/cattle-ivermectin-dogs

 

[Molpet]

If I get cancer remind me about this wormer treatment... not sure if it's true, but with so much money to be made it could be squashed
https://www.odditycentral.com/news/...rming-medicine-cured-his-terminal-cancer.html

 

[Tesumph]

I have a question.

My vets won't give me heartworm medication for Puckers. They say that mosquitoes don't live long enough here. Does that make sense? A mosquito is a mosquito right? (I've had more than 1 vet say this)

To an extent, yea. Mosquitos pick up microfilarie from an infected dog, and that has to develop for 14+ days in the mosquito before it becomes the infective L3 stage and can be passed to a healthy dog. Do your mosquitos live less than two weeks? That sounds odd.
Unless they just mean that the incidence of heartworm is very low because your mosquitos are less active in general than ours.

@Tesumph Did she poop?

Theia slept outside and I haven’t seen her poop yet.
Triumph was doing fine and then diarrhea’d in the house this morning. It was firmer. Gives me hope that they “just” have food poisoning and Theia is more sensitive than him.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I thought it had to be like 30 or 40 days above a certain temperature, think it was either 37 or 47, to lay the eggs or something like that? I read that somewhere recently. So maybe 14 days to infect the dog but I thought it took like a month for the lifecycle or whatever? So maybe they don’t get enough days above that temp up there??? For New England that would mean its literally impossible to get heartworm most of the year except a couple months in the summer. But they do say that a mosquito can get inside the house and live longer so you’re supposed to do it year round apparently. But maybe Canada is different.