A good worming plan?

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sparky1981

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Im just wondering what others do as far as a worming plan for their horses.We now have our horses at home after being on a livery yard for many years that i think tended to over worm. I.e double dosing and using panacur guard 5 dayer quite often. Now at home i havent been worming as often. We have 3 horses that are sometimes grazed with sheep. Can anyone recommend a good worming plan and the wormers to use at which points of the year?Thanks
 
Well having had a pony die through my ignorance I'm very careful about it.

You could have a worm count done to see how effective your livery yard's worming plan was.

My vet recommend a 3 year rolling worming plan, there are 3 or 4 chemical groups now so you pick which one is going to be your routine wormer throughout the grazing season, you then have to strategic worm at certain times of year for certain worms, it was ages ago I looked into this and no longer worry as my yard manager has the same vet and does the same prog, I think its Dec for bots with eqvalan, then 5 day guard once before winter and once after something to do with the frost ?? I'll try and dig out the plan I did years ago ..............................................
 
The equest/equest pramox plan is what I find to be the most simple and covers all bases.
I worm count, so only worm when I have too, but for a full year plan, to cover all bases you'll be fine with what you have.
 
I use Intelligent Worming, its great, they send you worm counts to do and then your wormers so you dont have to remember todo anything its all sorted for you.
 
We worm count at our yard and don't worm anything unless something shows up. All they get is done for tape worm spring and autumn
 
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