Why should you worm your horse or pony? Worms, as any other parasite, affect the health of your horse, debilitating the immune system. All horses have worms and depending on the type of worm, horses can lose weight, have a poor coat, reduced physical performance and can cause discomfort (tail rubbing); not to mention other more severe consequences such as 'summer sores', diarrhorea, anaemia, colic or even death. It is therefore ESSENTIAL that you worm your horse or pony.
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Are Horses Being Accurately Dosed With Wormers? For wormers to effectively treat internal parasite burdens, every horse must be dosed with the appropriate amount of wormer for their bodyweight.
If horses are under-dosed, the internal parasites are exposed to a sub-lethal amount of the drug; this has two very serious implications:
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Wormer Under Dosing The Often Ignored risk to your horse's health - Callum Blair BVMS MRCVS
Some form of worm control programme is essential to ensure the health of your horse. The objectives of a good working programme are two-fold. Firstly to prevent worm related problems and secondly to minimise pasture contamination with worm eggs from the horse's droppings. Read More ...
Practical Worming Advice A recent survey has shown that approximately 70% of horses screened in the UK were infected with either roundworms or tapeworms or both (data on file).
If worm infections are allowed to reach high levels they can cause serious problems including colic, poor performance, weight-loss and diarrhoea. The best way to prevent these conditions is to ensure horses are on an effective worm control programme.
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Equest Pramox If you are following Plan A on our Wormer Planner, you might like to know more details about EQUEST PRAMOX, a different combination wormer, now available from CWG. It contains moxidectin, the unique active ingredient of EQUEST, and praziquantel: the drug of choice for the control of tapeworm1.
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