Worming a new/never wormed horse.

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Hi,

There is a lot of conflicting information online. In the meantime before I speak to my vet in the morning. What would you worm your new horse with?

I've read bad things about panacur 5 day which is off putting but on the other hand lots of people have used it no problem.

Any advice appreciated
 
I have never had a problem with the 5 day, although I have never had a horse react badly to worming even ones with dubious worming history, if they are really poor I would usually keep them in isolation and give them a few days to settle onto the new routine and diet before worming.
 
If the horse was in along term home who never wormed it's very unlikely to have resistant worms .
Therefore panacur five day would be IMO at good choice .
 
if you don't know it's worming history, I'd always start with a FEC - then you know what you're dealing with.

My project looked amazingly healthy when I picked her up but had absolutely sky high results on a worm count. I was advised to start her on something I'd usually consider quite 'ineffective' in terms of my usual worming routine like strongid-p and then follow up with 5 day panacur later on. If they are very wormy then you need to be careful not to go overboard and tackle it slowly.

A wormy horse doesn't always look poor, I've known quite a few to be in fine fettle but stuffed full of worms :)
 
If the horse is new and I did not know what if any wormer it had been given previously I would use panacur guard or a pyrantel based wormer to start with. then a couple of weeks later do a worm count to see whats there. you also need to use something for tape worm and possibly bots depending on what you have used. best is to talk to the vet though and see what they say
 
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