FabulousFlynn'sMum
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Hi folks, just after a bit of advice off any worming/lice/mites experts out there!
I run a small livery yard, have three horses/two shetlands which are mine and hubby's and I have five livery horses/ponies. My old boy (he's an ID) started scratching something terrible a few weeks ago, anyway to cut a long story short, on the vets advice he's been clipped out completely and is responding successfully to pergolide for suspected cushings (he is in only very light work but used to sweat badly so the vet thought it might be some kind of bacterial skin infection off all the sweat) ive also done him from head to toe with coopers fly repellent on her advice just incase it was lice although she couldnt see any when she examined him. He is still a bit itchy so shes coming to give him a dectomax jab on Thursday.
Anyway what i'm wanting to know is, all the other horses are having the odd itch on the fences, gates etc but nothing like my Blue was, they are all about due to be wormed so am I right in thinking there is a wormer on the market that kills lice and mites too?, if that is the case I am going to ask that everyone does their horse with this wormer at the weekend, just to be on the safe side? This is more a precaution than anything else just in case the horses do have a few visitors, the other alternative is to get the vet to jab the lot of them on Thursday, but, cost wise, I dont know how feasable that will be for some of the liveries?
Anyway your help, as always, would be much appreciated and sorry for rambling on for so long!!!
Luv Jayne x
I run a small livery yard, have three horses/two shetlands which are mine and hubby's and I have five livery horses/ponies. My old boy (he's an ID) started scratching something terrible a few weeks ago, anyway to cut a long story short, on the vets advice he's been clipped out completely and is responding successfully to pergolide for suspected cushings (he is in only very light work but used to sweat badly so the vet thought it might be some kind of bacterial skin infection off all the sweat) ive also done him from head to toe with coopers fly repellent on her advice just incase it was lice although she couldnt see any when she examined him. He is still a bit itchy so shes coming to give him a dectomax jab on Thursday.
Anyway what i'm wanting to know is, all the other horses are having the odd itch on the fences, gates etc but nothing like my Blue was, they are all about due to be wormed so am I right in thinking there is a wormer on the market that kills lice and mites too?, if that is the case I am going to ask that everyone does their horse with this wormer at the weekend, just to be on the safe side? This is more a precaution than anything else just in case the horses do have a few visitors, the other alternative is to get the vet to jab the lot of them on Thursday, but, cost wise, I dont know how feasable that will be for some of the liveries?
Anyway your help, as always, would be much appreciated and sorry for rambling on for so long!!!
Luv Jayne x