Herbal Worming & those worming tab things

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I think the herbal wormer is Verm-x or something, just wondering what peoples thoughts were on it. Does it work?!

Also those worming tabs which horses are meant to willing eat as "treats" - do horses actually eat these?? Got 2 horses who are horrifically picky and will NOT have paste in their mouthes...!!
 
I know a number of people who have tried the worming tabs, our feed merchant was giving placebos out as testers to see if peoples horses would eat them. Not one of the people i know who used them said their horse ate it. I would be inclined to try them if i thought mine would eat it, she gets SO offended when we worm her, she stops talking to me :(
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I use the herbal wormer (Verm-X) on my horse. Wormed him in January 5 day course, then literally a day after it finished the yard changed his field and he was moved to a different one I hadn’t had a chance to poo pick. Did a worm count and it came back as 250worms per poo or what ever the technically name is, this is the lowest of the mid range (200 and you don’t need to treat again). (Bear in mind that before that he’d be out in a mixed herd and was last wormed in August/September)I’ve just given him another course which has cost me £10 and wormcount was sent off last night.

The Verm-x has a sort of cinnamony garlicy smell, he did initially turn his nose up at it but he only gets speedibeet for supper, if there was mix in there he’d have eaten straight off (he sometimes does this with speedibeet anyway but eats it after about 20mins or so of realising that that is all he’s getting apart from hay, never any problems with him eating breakfast!).

Plus the Verm-x is a tenner a go. Works out very cost effect (I bought my first pack for about £7 from Derby House as the packet was damaged!)
 
Dizzle, how soon after using Verm-x did you take that worm count?
 
I tried the tabs on a nutter pony who won't under any circumstance take the gel in his mouth or food, regardless of how well disguised it is. He took the first one then chewed it and spat out the rest. I ate one of the placebos to see how it tasted - and it is just like a mouthful of talc, or that yucky milk of magnesia stuff, completely tasteless and chalky. I think they'd have more success if they put mint in it. Anyhow, I did crush up the tabs into a fine powder then added it to the pony's food and he just ate it all, completely surprised me, but then as it has no flavour at all, or smell, I guess he just didn't notice it. My only issue with them is that I haven't found one which covers the small encysted worms like the Equest Pramox does, and that's what I want to worm for twice a year.
 
A lot of people have said their horses will eat the worming tablets if they are fed a strong tasting treat before and after the tablets (E.G. strong mints)

Herbal Wormers work by expelling worms from the horses system (rather than chemical wormers which kill the worms and then they are expelled) so they must be used alongside a good pasture management regime otherwise the horse will become reinfected.
 
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