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I've been having trouble with my little mare and her tail - I've searched through some older posts and thought it would be worth worming her for pin worm.

What wormers 'cover' Pinworm? I'll have to send the OH out to get it and can't rely on him to ask questions and get the right one!!:rolleyes:
 
Hi, I have loads of trouble with pin worm with my youngster. I tried the recommended wormers (ivermectin and moxidectin bsaed ones), but they did not get rid of it. The vet recommended using it as a wash to kill the eggs off on his bum too but that didn't work. Tried washing every surface he could hve rubbed on with Jeyes fluid for months, all to no avail. Spoke to an old country man I know, he said the new wormers get soaked up to early in the gut. He said the best thing is garlic. Have been feeding him small amounts for three weeks out of four, and now we have been pin worm free for months! Good old garlic worked better and it's cheaper too!
 
The wormers for treating pinworm are the old fashioned ones, Strongid P and Panacur, agreeing with the poster above.
I've lost track of the number of pinworm information sheets I've sent out today, must be at least ten, sop you are not alone. There is an epidemic.
 
She's fed garlic daily anyway. I started her on it in the summer thinking it was sweet itch in hope it would help. I had found a cream which seemed to help(which reminds me, havent seen the tub for a while :rolleyes: ) but started itching again Nov/Dec. I've de loused her and I found a tub of feather mite killer stuff and in desperation covered her in the stuff!
I've seen no signs of pinworms (but then to be fair I haven't looked) clutching at straws now!!

I'll try her with some wormer. Is it more common in youngsters?
 
Please, please, please test first - there is a test for pinworms, its using sellotape. Pinworms don't always show up in normal counts.

The reason we have problems with these little critters is resistance to wormers. If she doesn't have pinworms then there is no point in worming, but pinworms only will disappear with careful worming and hygiene - including individual grooming kit, disinfecting stable, creosoting fences and incredibly good hygiene with everything else - so if you worm, you need to clean everything 2-3 days after.

Then a while later test again!

Good luck
 
We have a pinworm issue too!

Saw a visable pinworm on Sat on one mare who has been scratching for months. Worming with Panacur and 2 horses have had several dead ones come out and I found 1 from my mare who hasn't scratched at all his morning.

We usually worm this time of year with a panacur type product for encysted red worm anyway, as you can't worm count for it. So killing 2 birds (or worms!) with 1 stone!

Hope it clears it.... May do the sellotape test in a month or so to see how well we've cleared it


ETA, one horse with it is fed garlic daily anyway, so sadly not helped him. He has had a mild itchy bum for a while too.
 
Borderreiver said:
The wormers for treating pinworm are the old fashioned ones, Strongid P and Panacur, agreeing with the poster above.
I've lost track of the number of pinworm information sheets I've sent out today, must be at least ten, sop you are not alone. There is an epidemic.
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would you suggest testing a month or so after the wormer to see if it has cleared?
 
Yes, do re-test, just in case you haven't cleared it. With pinworms you often don't know until you either see one or have an itchy horse.

Most people think that the wormer has to go through the system and touch the worms, it doesn't it has to go into the bloodstream and by the time it gets to the back end (where the pinworms live) its too diluted, so in extreme cases (like the one we had and under the instruction of Rossdales & Liphook) our vet evacuated the droppings that he could and put wormer in the back end as well as the front. We even tried the painting on around the anus (and worming) - it wasn't enough.

The sellotape test is relatively simple, you use sellotape to pad around the area around the anus where the worms lay the eggs, place on a slide and get your vet or a lab to have a look under the microscope. - I know Abbey diagnostics were doing it for free (i do not work for them!)
 
We successfully treated pinworm last summer. Vet prescribed strongid p. One tube to be given every three weeks, 3 tubes given in total plus also prescribed a topical ivermectin solution to be applied to back end to kill eggs. Seems to have done the trick. If any of your horses are tied up on yard and rubbing then you need make sure you disinfect those areas including stable etc. There was another pinworm thread a few days ago.
 
My friend had a nightmare with her old girl getting rid of pinworm. Andy Durham at Liphook saw her several times. She had ivermectin - which didn't touch them, Moxidectin - which didn't touch them, then she had an ivermectin injection - which also didn't work. Injectable invermectin is not licensed for horses as it is used in cows but he thought it worth a go!

In the end she had three 5 day of Panacur Guard treatments at 4 week intervals. This finally cleared them.

Liphook now recommends using Strongid P to get rid of them.

The thing that was unusual about my friends mare was that she didn't show any signs of itching at all. I've hear it said time and time again that horses with pinworm will be itchy and will scratch their bottoms but I really wish people would listen that not all horses do!!

I did all of mine with Strongid P just in case.
 
I'm still struggling with these :(
Gave Equest Thursday past but he's still passing live worms.
Not sure if I need to do strongid p now as well or how soon I can do this. Interestingly he usually has garlic but I stopped it in December, hadn't had any worm issues until now but again he didn't pass any pinworms until I wormed him so not sure what is going on!
 
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