We last wormed everybody in september and were due to worm again around christmas. Had a sick 9 year old mare who is normally such a good doer we have to watch her for over eating and getting huge.turned out to be a worm problem. This year we had real problems and in horses I would not have expected to have. Never had a real problem with our own stock, only ever really had any grief from stuff we bought in,particularly if we bought in from an auction etc. I would say I am bordering on obsessive re worming horses, forever checking droppings etc and worm very regularly. The white worms you describe sound like immature roundworms, these tend to be more of a problem in foals and youngstock causing gut blockages due to the size they can grow to (40cm) i would be more worried about the redworms.ĭo you know what was grazed on the land before your horse? could have been something that was riddled and yours has picked up infection from the pasture. MAKE SURE YOU ARE TREATING YOUR HORSE FOR IT'S CORRECT BODYWEIGHT!!!!!!! i cannot believe the amount of people who have no idea what their horse weighs and end up under dosing, which leads to resistance to drugs.ĭifferent chemical wormers have different modes of action, equimax and equest cause paralysis of the parasite, whereas panacur effectivlt starves the parasite to death.
I would be inclined to do a panacur 5 day guard in 2 weeks as a follow up this will start to flush any encysted small redworms that may be present from her system, follow that up in a months time with an equest.
worm counts DO NOT detect the prescence og encysted small redworms (cyathastomes) or tapeworms. worm counts will only tell you the estimated number of egg laying adults present, it is likely your horse was carrying a burden on juvenile non egg laying worms. For worm counts to be accurate they need to be done quite frequently, once in the spring is not enough, worm life cycles get most active during the grazing season, i.e march to october, you really need a count to be done every 6 - 8 weeks or so.
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