OMG - Mortified!!!! Gross pics!!!

I would say def ascoids which is large roundworm.
They are mainly found in foals.
The larvae penetrate gut wall off small intestine and migrate to liver and lungs. Where they move up bronchi and trachea, swallowed and return to small intestine yet again.
You want a moxidectin or ivermectin based wormer.
 
Personally I would send the pic to your vet and ask them the best course of action. I for one hat worming unless necessary, in fact I feel an argument coming on with my yard owner in a couple of weeks... we've wormed consistently for the last two years and the worm count we did in August showed we were clear... so why are we scheduled to worm again? (we did tape in september)
 
CBFan said:
Personally I would send the pic to your vet and ask them the best course of action. I for one hat worming unless necessary, in fact I feel an argument coming on with my yard owner in a couple of weeks... we've wormed consistently for the last two years and the worm count we did in August showed we were clear... so why are we scheduled to worm again? (we did tape in september)
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Totally agree. We routinely wormed until about a year and a half ago. We now worm count only and treat for Tape in Spring and Autumn. If something comes up in the worm counts we can just target worm but so far nothing has come up.
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Heh heh. I had the same with a pony I took in recently. Was told he had been wormed a fortnight before, but we wormed again anyway.
What is below is just what came out ONE poo! There were plenty more!
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As was said after....better out than in!!!
 
to the OP i would wait 10 days then get a worm count done, see where you are and act accordingly! do you pooh pick your grazing? is the land a bit horse sick? good luck at least you noticed.
 
That's what I love about HHO...tis very educational...superb photography, just glad I had finished my dinner though! Hope the foals are much relieved to be relieved of these particular passengers!
 
Well done for the piccies, not so sure I could have gone back for a second look.

As all have said better out than in, I understand that if you had not wormed yo would not have seen them!!!, so wormer may be doing something
 
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to the OP i would wait 10 days then get a worm count done, see where you are and act accordingly! do you pooh pick your grazing? is the land a bit horse sick? good luck at least you noticed.
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I regularly poo pick and worm and my land is rotated and rested and is not over grazed at all.

The only thing I can think of is that a couple of friends had their ponies here for a while. Although they said they were wormed, I'm wondering if that was true now!!!

I'm gonna call the vet tomorrow to see what they recommend. Only 1 foal had wormy poo this morning, and only a couple. The mares had none and the other foal had none but has got a touch of the runs now. Even tho he didn't have any in his droppings this morning, he worries me a little as he looks under the weather and was coughing when I turned him out. I actually had the vet takes bloods from him on fri as I was worried that he looked a bit depressed. Probably cos of these worms!! However, when I wormed him, I'm not sure he got his full dose as he spit a little out. Do you guys think I should give him a bit more today or see what the vet says first?
 
They look like pin worms to me as ther are see thought, i had a prob with a couple of my youngsters earlier in the year, wormer all the horses and the 2 yearlings had the same worms which were pinworms.
Get the vet to have a look at them and see what he thinks, i am also a great believer in having horses drenched for worms, but that seems to be a really old fashioned method now, even thought still prob the most effective
 
Pretty sure they are Ascarids, they look fairly scary because of their size but they are not the worst worms a horse can have. Looks like the wormer has done it's job so that's good! I wouldn't be worried about them but I'd make sure I'd covered the encysted red worm with Equest Pramox or a 5 day course of Panacur Guard.
 
I was thinking of doing the 5 day Panacur Guard at the end of the month as the foals are still too young for Pramox.

I'm gonna save a couple of the worms for the vet to see what he says too. Thanks for all your advice guys.
 
I would be interested to know which wormers you have been using? Sorry if I missed that somewhere?

Those are ascarids, roundworms typical of foals and untreated youngsters. My own rescued yearling pooed out a barrow load when I first got him.

Some ascarids are becoming resistant to the ivermectin wormers, we have had a few likely cases through our labs. It's a good idea to use a different drug like pyrantel for instance, to be sure you have treated them.

Older horses do not tend to pick up ascarids so this should see the end of them you will be pleased to hear.
 
I've used Strongid P on the foals every 6wks since birth and this last time, used Eqvalan Duo. The mares got Equest when the foals were born and Eqvalan Duo the other day, same as the foals.
 
Op, definately save them to show your vet, and ask your vet the questions you have, as we're all (probably) not qualified to say.

As for the question what happens when none of the wormers work, well different drugs will be developed and used which may be more toxic to our horses. Better to manage them with worm counts, poo picking, pasture rotation and diet, and start to look into herbal wormers I say. Looking into the availability of human wormers, it appears there are 3 herbs commonly used to worm which are deemed to be effective - so hopefully these will translate into safe and effective to use on horses.

incidentally, with humans it is recommended that adding garlic to your diet is supposed to make you an inhospitable environment for worms -so it'd be interesting to see if horses who are fed garlic have lower worm burdens.
 
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