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Re: [RC] [RC-Digest] Vol: 03.1071 - heidiORANGE staff vets think there is NO proof what so ever related to 'performance problems' when using the daily wormer.. its an 'equine myth' just BS or HS bunk. NO real SCIENCE behind the 'suggestions' by a few...Shame on you Roger...you do your "one rat studies" all the time. I know one horse that absolutely did have MAJOR problems on the daily wormer. The company worked with the owner for many months trying to figure out why...no luck. Just like every thing else, daily wormer is not for every horse... I'd also add that the ONLY horses that seem to have problems as a group are the endurance horses. And while Roger is right that there is no "real science" behind this, there is enough anecdotal experience from quite a variety of really sharp and very experienced veterinarians to suggest that perhaps science ought to get on the stick and take a look at it. I'd suspect the observations about daily dewormers and anterior enteritis in endurance horses, given the number of observances, the wide distribution of cases, and the level of expertise of the numerous veterinarians that have felt there might be a connection, are far more apt to be valid than Roger's one-rat studies. (Not to say that Roger's one-rat studies aren't valid for his own horse--they are. But they don't suggest a trend, whereas the sheer volume of anecdotal reports about daily dewormers and anterior enteritis in endurance horses DO suggest a possible trend.) "Science" used to think that herbal medicine was bunk, too--until folks started to actually look, and found out that the herbs were full of all sorts of nifty pharmaceuticals that do, indeed, often have very profound medical effects... Just because science hasn't progressed far enough to unravel a particular thing does not make it unreal. Heidi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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