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I am asking if anyone out there can help. My rattlesnake got an overdose of ivermicton. Is there any thing I can do? Please help!!!!!!

I think if you posted more details surrounding the situation you may receive more informative responses.

I injected 3 mice with .15 of ivermecton. The western ended up eating all 3. The next morning I went in there to give water and noticed he was not moving. He did go to the bathroom today. I have 1 western, 1 pygme, and 1 southern copperhead, for the lst 6 months they have ate one a piece, and that is it.I didn't watch this time, and this happened.

Are they all in the same cage together???????

The two rattle snakes are, but not the copperhead.

I am sorry but I don't know what that is but had a couple questions. Why did you inject the mice in the first place? Also were they live when they were offered to the snake? If so why don't you monitor your snake while eating live mice? I don't mean to sound rude and maybe I just don't understand about this drug you injected the mice with and I currently photograph but do not maintain Western Rattle snakes so I am not up on there husbandry but something seems missing from this story
Foot Hill Reptiles

okay, there are some care problems here, but it isn't really necessary to jump down the guy's throat about them when he's simply asking for help with a sick animal.
i realize that this post is a couple of weeks old, and i'm not sure how helpful my answer will be at any rate, but here goes:

if i'm not mistaken, ivermictin is an antibiotic. not sure if it is safe for reptile use or not. but ingestion isn't as lethal as injection in any case.
if he defecated the day after ingesting it, odds are that the 'poison mice' were not defecated out...probably was his previous meal.
what i would do--or would have done, as it is too late for this-- would be to induce vomiting to bring the mice back up. failing that, consult a veteranarian. even if they won't see him in the office, they may have some advice.
in the future, if you're going to treat mice as such, treat them and then wait a week prior to feeding them. this will let the medicine do it's job and basically get out of their system. and yeah, don't leave live prey unsupervised.