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lilym
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Walking into your merchant and demanding or buying the cheapest wormer online really isn't a good thing to do. Believe me there are people out there especially in Brussels who would love to see wormers being made prescription only drugs, which TBH if resistance and misuse of anthelmintics carries on may not be a bad thing, but would considerably push up the price for horse owners as well as opening a black market of internet sourced dodgy foreign drugs.
Use a weightape - or better still a weighbridge and keep and eye on what your horse weighs - If I had a pound for everytime I ask "do you know what your horse weighs??" only to be told "He's about xxx hands" I would be a very rich person!!! Weightapes cost around a fiver and are an ESSENTIAL (in my view) piece of equiptment every owner should have. Use egg counts, it takes a while to get a good overview of what's going on with your horse but in the end it's worth it. Make use of companies such as Intelligent Worming and westgate labs they will do a count and analyze it for you. YO also need to look at what they are doing, blanket worming everything often with the wrong drug isn't the way to go and in fact it is ILLEGAL for a YO to resell wormers to liveries. We need to keep up the fight and learn and expand our knowledge to slow down wormer resistance and to keep our rights to buy wormers from a wide variety of places - imagine how expensive they would be if vet's only?? ok lecture over
Walking into your merchant and demanding or buying the cheapest wormer online really isn't a good thing to do. Believe me there are people out there especially in Brussels who would love to see wormers being made prescription only drugs, which TBH if resistance and misuse of anthelmintics carries on may not be a bad thing, but would considerably push up the price for horse owners as well as opening a black market of internet sourced dodgy foreign drugs.
Use a weightape - or better still a weighbridge and keep and eye on what your horse weighs - If I had a pound for everytime I ask "do you know what your horse weighs??" only to be told "He's about xxx hands" I would be a very rich person!!! Weightapes cost around a fiver and are an ESSENTIAL (in my view) piece of equiptment every owner should have. Use egg counts, it takes a while to get a good overview of what's going on with your horse but in the end it's worth it. Make use of companies such as Intelligent Worming and westgate labs they will do a count and analyze it for you. YO also need to look at what they are doing, blanket worming everything often with the wrong drug isn't the way to go and in fact it is ILLEGAL for a YO to resell wormers to liveries. We need to keep up the fight and learn and expand our knowledge to slow down wormer resistance and to keep our rights to buy wormers from a wide variety of places - imagine how expensive they would be if vet's only?? ok lecture over
