Re: RC: worming

[sharp penny <penelope_75647@yahoo.com>]

   Amanda,
Hi! Welcome to ridecamp and endurance. I use a daily
wormer (strongid c) and once a year after the first
freeze I tube with ivermectrin to get the bots that
the strongid dosn't get. I went to the daily wormer
when my daughters show horse colicked bad enough to
have to undergo surgery. One of the things the vets at
Texas A&M stressed was to use a daily wormer. The
other wormers were too hard on his system. The people
that bought him from us 3 years later forgot about the
strongid and pasted him twice within 4 months of each
treatment. He colicked both times, a day after they
gave him the paste wormer. 
    Endurance puts enough stress on a horses system so
I figured if the daily wormer was effective (except
against bots) and easier on the horses system why not
use it for all my horses.

Penny & Daisy (paint endurance horse under
construction)


--- "guest@endurance.net" <guest@endurance.net> wrote:
> A. Perez AmandaPerez@ureach.com
>   I am getting ready to buy a horse, and it's been
> over 20 years since I last owned one.  One of the
> many things that have changed in the last 20 years
> is worming.  Back in my youth, you dropped a manure
> sampel at your vets and wormed based on the
> findings, usually t2 - 4 times a year max (now this
> was in Maine where it gets d*** cold in the winter,
> which I suppose may make parasites less of a problem
> due to winter-kill of eggs/larva).  
>   
>   Nowadays, there are daily, weekly and monthly
> wormers given continually (regardless of signs of
> infestation or not).  I have concerns about both the
> cost and the safety of worming this aggressively. 
> I'd like to here what you folks do for worming, and
> roughly what it costs per horse per month.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
>
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