Help needed please re worming!

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Spot_the_Risk

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I've picked up a week ago a a five month old colt foal, unhandled, and am working on get him used to humans, but I have no idea if he has been wormed so I'm going to work on the assumption that he hasn't been. I've looked in his poo and there's nothing obvious there, at the moment he's in a barn on his own, but I'm hoping to turn him out next week with my gelding. This little one isn't used to hard feed yet, so until he is, I can't worm him, but suggestions please on what I should worm him with to start with.

All help gratefully received!
 
We were advised Eqvalan or Strongid for little ones - wormed ours last night and tbh they were as good as golld (better than the 16 and 20yo's), if handleable in a headcollar, just slip syringe in between lips and squirt onto tongue - tbh a breeder friend of mine said she's had less probs with foals as the last 'syringe type' thing they have had in their mouth is a teat and they are expecting milk.

One of ours actually tried to suck the syringe (weaned 3 weeks ago)
 
If you don't know his history I would give him a Panacur 5 day liquid wormer. It gentle so if he has a burden it should be safe. Then follow on a couple weeks later with a general wormer for this time of year...
 
Hollypots - have you used that on one so young? We were told not to by the stud as they'd had alot of scouring problems with it and the feed shop I buy the wormer from advised against it?
 
I would start with single dose of Panacur first. You can get onto ivermectin in a few weeks with his next dose. My unhandled yearling very quickly came to the headcollar last year and was easy peasy to worm by syringe. As someone else said they like to suck the tube.
 
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Hollypots - have you used that on one so young? We were told not to by the stud as they'd had alot of scouring problems with it and the feed shop I buy the wormer from advised against it?

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Yes - I have used it for shetland foals/yearlings and adults with no problems.
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Thats the first I've heard of problems. I'll have a little google...thanks for that
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Thanks everyone for your help, I'm going to pick up a load of samples of mix at the sw equine fair this weekend (seems crazy when I'm a feed merchant, but I can't open all the bags at work!) and see if I can tempt him to eat, then I can plan the worming a bit. On the plus side, I have actually touched his nose today a few times when he's been eating haylage out of my arms - progress!
 
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