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Horse Worming Tips
YOU ARE IN ANY DOUBT ABOUT YOUR HORSES HEALTH
PLEASE CONSULT YOUR VET
Should you stable your horse during
routine worming?
If Living Out
Worm your
horse with the product suitable for the time of year, leave in same
field for 24/36 hours and then if possible move your horse on to
clean pasture.
To help sterilize contaminated pasture harrowing when it is hot and
dry may help.
If possible remove dung from the fields twice a week.
If you stable your horse to administer worming products and then
return the horse to the same field then there is no point in keeping
him in after worming (he is no more infective just after worming
than he was before). However with certain products there are special
precautions to be observed.
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EQUITAPE In order to limit
pasture excretion of the product and its metabolites, horses should
remain stabled for 2 days after treatment
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EQUEST PRAMOX In order to limit the
impact of moxidectin on dung fauna, and due to
insufficient data regarding environmental risk of
praziquantel, horses should not be turned out onto
pasture within 3 days of treatment.
When Indoors
Administer the
wormer then leave your horse in one stable for the 48 hours,
afterwards remove everything that could be contaminated (bedding,
hay etc) then clean the stable and contents with a strong
disinfectant. Then replace with fresh bedding and forage and then
the horse can go back in. It is good stable management to regularly
clean all feed and water buckets. A good worming programme is always
made more effective by good management.
Remember that any change in circumstances and management may upset
your horse and in some cases lead to a bout of colic particularly if
your horse is used to grass and then suddenly gets stabled so in
general situations stabling is not really necessary. It is best that
your horse does not associate worming with a sudden change to their
life style.
New Arrivals
As a
general rule new arrivals on a yard, that have arrived with a
satisfactory worming history, should be treated with the
appropriate products (small redworm, redworm and tapeworm treatment)
and where possible should then be turned out on to a paddock that is
specially reserved for this purpose. If there is no established
worming history then any doubts about how to commence a worming
programme should be referred to a Vet.
New arrivals
on a yard will bring new worm burdens with them so there is a case
for stabling them for a while before letting them graze with the
rest of the herd.
