New horse: worming and turnout. What do you do?

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What do you do with regard to worming when you get a new horse on the yard?

Whenever I get a new horse in my yard I worm and keep them in for at least 24 hours. I also worm whenever I move between my two fields, even if it means doing them slightly early.

I am increasingly surprised with the number of photos I see on here of new horses, having just arrived that day, already out in the field.
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Maybe it's just me be being over cautious but I think the best thing about having my own grazing after years of livery yards is being able to ensure that you can manage a strict worming regime.
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So what do you personally do? Or does you yard have a strict rule about this sort of thing?

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As most wormers now kill the worms in the body instead of just making them be passed its not such ahuge issue and we dont have to keep in when they are wormed, with new horses they have to do a 5 day course as we dont know their history before they can be turned out
 
at my yard when a horse first arrives its wormed and has to stay in over night and once they've stayed in they can e turned out with the others.
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this is where the regime ends and the yo isnt to bothered when there next wormed, so it comes down to me and my mother to worm all 6 horses in are field 4 of them are not ours! but atleast this way we know there all wormed.
 
Any new horse which arrives on our yard has to be wormed the day before it arrives, then has a poo sample taken by YO when it arrives which is sent to local vet. Horse has to stay in until worm count result back from the vet. (Allowed turnout in the menage etc but not in the fields). Only take two or three days to get the results back.
 
any new horse is turned out on its own for the afternoon and then has a companion after that as we don't do 24/7 stabling. Sometimes they stay in if they arrive late. Generally we find out their worming history and fit them in with the rest of ours, plus extra if they haven't been done/we don't believe the previous owner.
We've not had a problem with worms, our fields are rotated regularly and totally rested over winter so they seem to not do well.
 
New horses are wormed the day they get here and then turned out in the medical paddock on their own for about 5 days before they go out with other horses, at our yard.
 
We probably dont do the right thing but we dont worm any of ours unless they look wormy, we see worms or they stay away at an event. When new ones come we keep them in for a day, to help them settle then turn them out.
 
Our yard worm all new horses when they arrive and then they are kept in for 24hours, they are then turned out with a 'friendly' horse for a few days before going out with the herd.
 
I think it's a good policy to worm to kill small redworm (Panacur 5 day or Moxidectin work well) and also to double dose for Tapeworm when they arrive....but there's no need to keep them in to do it as wormers kill worms outright nowadays.
I'd chuck them out straight away, but I'd poo pick pretty carefully until they had both treatments to keep the grazing clean of worm eggs.
Oh, and rara007, unfortunately you can't tell which horses have worms without worm counting etc -it would be handy if you could though!
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We probably dont do the right thing but we dont worm any of ours unless they look wormy, we see worms or they stay away at an event. When new ones come we keep them in for a day, to help them settle then turn them out.

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Gosh! Really?
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Can I ask why you don't feel the need to keep a worming regime? (I know that sounds sarky, but I mean it as a serious question)
 
Crikey they can be riddled with parasites yet still look reasonable.

We worm anything new and it stays in at least 24 hours depending on which worms we are doing for.
 
We turn out into a small paddock kept for the purpose, next to where the others are. get a worm count done, then worm accordingly. Turned out with the others when we feel they are ready to be mixed.
We rarely worm, except for Tape, but we do regular worm counts. Once they get to looking wormy they will be riddled with the blighters
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We Worm, then they stay in 48 hours and everything is wormed at the same time, either 8 or 13 weeks depending on which wormer they last had.

I seem to have bought a lot of wormers lately
 
We prefer the horse to be wormed prior to five days of arriving here and ask for proof.
It would be completely impossible to worm over 40 horses and keep them inside, so we do a mass worming and leave them all out. I advise any owners who DIY what we are using and ask they worm accordingly.
I tend to worm the young and old more than the rest unless they don't thrive as normal. Anything that looks poor gets wormed again asap.
We do random worm counts and our last one was negligable according to the vet, but we do periodically totally rest pastures for at least six months, this breaks the breeding cycle and the crows break up the droppings and eat anything in there.
I think you have to worm according to your circumstances, in our case Bristol vet school worked out a feasible plan and we try to stick to that, because we use all 107 acres we don't poo pick but rely on pasture management instead.
Oh and something many people don't realise; when you worm for red worms unless you use a strong enough dose or repeat again after 5 days you miss loads of emerging worms from the stomach wall. The first wormer gets those in the lumen, but the remaining beggars harch and migrate 5-7 days later, hence the original regime of Panacur Guard..
I had a right old row with the makers of Equvalan years ago who admitted this was the case.. their reply was people wouldn't pay to double dose..
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Our yard usually worms them immediately they arrive, then they're kept in for 24 hours. I know with horses who've left and come back, say, that the YO knows have been kept on a strict worming regime have gone straight back out. The mare I have coming has been on her own for months, is strictly wormed and will go out on her own for a few weeks when she arrives.
 
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Genuine question here...but if the horse looks wormy, isn't it a bit late by then?

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Or if it colics...
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Any new horses to my yard are wormed on arrival; the horse remains in either a corral or a small paddock for 4 or 5 hours, all poos are picked up during this time, and then the horse will become a member of one of my herds and generally the only reason they wouldn't be, would be because of bad manners/attitude.

It is very rare at my yard for a horse to not be put in one of the herds on it's day of arrival. Modern wormers are really not comparable to the ones of old, so what we all did many years ago, is not so relevant nowadays.
 
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