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| How often do you all worm your adult horses (5+ years of age)? I was looking at stocking up again and ValleyVet has 1 year supply wormer packs (1 tube per 2 months) and I might be wrong but that seems a bit excessive to me. We give ours a strong dose in early spring (which is about March around here) and in the fall right before winter really hits (late September to October, depending on the year). And if it looks like one might need it, we give them a milder shot of it between those two dates. We've never had a problem, but now I'm wondering if we aren't doing enough? Opinions? I live in northern Idaho, if that helps. In the Moscow/Pullman area, or between Washington State Uni. and Uni. of Idaho. |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | That's what I do in Northern Alberta. Except for my mare who can't have dewormer... we do her once a year with copper. |
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Location: Kentucky | I deworm by fecals, so I don't have a set schedule. It actually works better for me to do it this way than to guess if they have anything. |
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Location: North Texas | I worm every other month per the schedule after speaking with the vet about it. Never had any problems with it. The only issue I had with the twice a year schedule is that they almost always had eggs or worms by the time we checked them/wormed them. I haven't had either since switching to this schedule a few years ago. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | savannah.96 - 2016-10-25 9:40 AM How often do you all worm your adult horses (5+ years of age)? I was looking at stocking up again and ValleyVet has 1 year supply wormer packs (1 tube per 2 months) and I might be wrong but that seems a bit excessive to me. We give ours a strong dose in early spring (which is about March around here) and in the fall right before winter really hits (late September to October, depending on the year). And if it looks like one might need it, we give them a milder shot of it between those two dates. We've never had a problem, but now I'm wondering if we aren't doing enough? Opinions? I live in northern Idaho, if that helps. In the Moscow/Pullman area, or between Washington State Uni. and Uni. of Idaho. I do something similar with mine that are in pasture. Spring (March/April) and fall after it freezes. The ones I have in the corral during the summer get something in between that time period.
Edited by wyoming barrel racer 2016-10-25 9:13 PM
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| I work every 90 days. A vet told me years ago that ivermectin is residual for 90 days. My vet recommends two tubes of ivermectin once in a while for adult horses. The bio teachervdown the hall from me has her MS in equine parasitology. She says that moxidectin and ivermectin are the only wormers that worms do not build up a resistance to. |
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Location: Jersey Girl | I still do a rotational schedule. |
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Location: MD | I work for an equine vet. She says that they found parasites were forming resistance to dewormers given every few months. They like doing once in the spring and once after the first frost with Equimax. Plus three fecals done throughout the year to keep an eye on them.
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Location: North Dakota | Fecals done in spring and fall on my personal horses. Normally horses are just dewormed 2-3 times per year at my barn. Panacur, Quest plus or Exodus in the spring and a second dose 2 weeks later for the horses we know that have more parasite issues. Equimax in the fall after the 3rd-4th frost. We have low epg in our fecals normally so basically we are deworming for chances of the other parasites that fecals do not detect. |
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Location: Wherever They Send Me | I can honestly say that I havent really wormed on a set schedule in a few years. I get fecals done - they have come back negative. I know that SmartPak has a fecal kit you can order and send back to them - which is handy and relatively cheap ($30).
I am thinking about giving them some ivermectin after the first "frost," mainly due to the bot fly eggs (gross....). |
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| So if you rotate wormers and say only use the same kind once a year, do you really have to worry about them becoming immune? Even if you wormed like every 2-3 months? |
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| Just make it simple ...
There are 90 day and 60 day cycles of Holidays to use as automatic
worming dates ...
The main thing is to give enough wormer you kill the worms with no
survivors to create any type of immunity ....
I keep my broodmares free of worms and also do an additional ivermectin
worming at 10-14 days prior to foaling. Mother Nature orders the new baby
to eat some of Mamma's poop in the first 24 hours to start his good gut
bacteria and you do not want the baby to load up on worm eggs.
First wormer for my babies ... because they are clean of worms ... is at 6 months at weaning time ... and it is a round worm wormer with the P word .... no safeguard or panacure used at my barn .. ivermectin at next regular worming for my big horses or 30 days which ever comes first .. THIS gets everyone on the same worming dates ..
If any horse develops an "air belly" or poop is dark brown .... I will give them a tube of the round worm wormer with the P word .. lol
I use a full tube on all horses and when foals reach 750 lbs they get a full tube.
This is my Holiday worming schedules
CHRISTMAS // NEWYEARS WEEK
Quest ... it will kill everything and lasts 90 days
EASTER can come early or late .. no problem
IVERMECTIN
is 60 days
JULY 4TH
IVERMECTIN
LABOR DAY
IVERMECTIN
HALLOWEEN
IVERMECTIN
CHRISTMAS // NEWYEARS
START ALL OVER
Having a good solid worming schedule is a key to healthy horses along
with a decent feeding program of primarily whole oat, alfalfa, good hay
and GroStrong minerals ... no need for other supplements ..
COST .... IVERMECTIN $3/tube P word wormer $6 Quest $10
buy off the internet sales Jeffers or Valley Vet
ONE HORSE
1 tube QUEST .... $10
4 ivermectin ..... $12
1 p word wormer $6
TOTAL COST 1 YEAR ... $28 ..
for a broodmare you may need to add an ivermectin depending on foaling
wormer 10 days before ...
Also .. if your pasture is over grazed ... hit it more often with hotter
fertilizer 21-21-21 or get rid of some horses .... overgrazing gives
you the worm capital of the world due to horses eating poop ..
HAVE FUN ...
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Location: Phoenix | MidWest1452 - 2016-10-26 1:39 PM
Fecals done in spring and fall on my personal horses. Normally horses are just dewormed 2-3 times per year at my barn. Panacur, Quest plus or Exodus in the spring and a second dose 2 weeks later for the horses we know that have more parasite issues. Equimax in the fall after the 3rd-4th frost. We have low epg in our fecals normally so basically we are deworming for chances of the other parasites that fecals do not detect.
That last sentence is critical. I was going just off fecals and I think I was lacking ivermectin greatly! |
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| dkcowgirl - 2016-10-25 11:46 AM I worm every other month per the schedule after speaking with the vet about it. Never had any problems with it. The only issue I had with the twice a year schedule is that they almost always had eggs or worms by the time we checked them/wormed them. I haven't had either since switching to this schedule a few years ago.
I do the exact same thing. My horses look great! |
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