Worming - I'm a twit.

HollyWoozle

HollyWoozle

Well-Known Member
Joined
1 August 2002
Messages
4,035
Location
Beds/South Cambs
www.farandride.com
So I thought I'd be clever and give the horses their Equest Pramox in sandwiches. Wrong. I failed and just wasted about £32 of wormer (at a stage when I am ebaying things to try and afford life).

The shetland pony however would've eaten wormer sandwiches all day long if I'd let him.

Remind me to sell the big ones and get more ponies.

*hates self*
 
If it's any consolation I wormed my sleeve the last time round - much to the yard's amusement! I wasn't even anywhere near the horse at the time!
 
after nightmare head shy filly i tired everything in the end the winner was apple and apple corer (about 99p from most supermarkets) core the middle of the apple, keep the core cut of 2 ens of it bung one end back in your apple squeze wormer in the middle and bung the other end with the cut off core by time silly filly bit into apple an relaise dsomething was a little funny the tasty apple won out and she scoffed the lot! ta da i love tricking my little devils into having thier medcines.
I wasted many a good wormer mixing it with everything under the sun in her feed trying ot get the wy devil to eat it.
 
I watched my friend worm herself the other day - straining to reach while her horse waved his head in the air above hers, she had her mouth open in concentration, the whole lot came straight back out of his mouth and into hers....

I have one, a Shetland surprisingly, who I discovered won't eat food laced with anything after I had already mixed in the wormer. She spent the day shut in the stable with only the tub of wormer-food for company until she ate it.
 
HollyWoozle said:
So I thought I'd be clever and give the horses their Equest Pramox in sandwiches. Wrong. I failed and just wasted about £32 of wormer (at a stage when I am ebaying things to try and afford life).

The shetland pony however would've eaten wormer sandwiches all day long if I'd let him.

Remind me to sell the big ones and get more ponies.

*hates self*
Click to expand...

That sounds like a great idea , we had to corckscrew out an apple and hollow out a abit squidge it in and the fat pig ate it ( the joys of having a very food obsessed pony ) ;)
 
My gelding was a nightmare to work but after a few months of having antepsin syringed in 3 times a day to treat hindgut ulcers he now neighs in excitement at the sight of a syringe, it must have tasted sweet. Lol
 
I now use a worming bit and it takes all the stress out of worming - I got fed up with fighting to get it in and wasting it . The worming bit makes it so much easier .
 
my old YO used to say to mix with feed as saves the battle of trying to syringe in. Personally I dont mind syringing.....and my horse hates anything that makes his feed taste funny and will not touch it :(
 
granules i found are great for mixing into food :D ive never tried to syringe wormer and by all these stories i have no intention of doing so
 
Thankfully my current horse doesnt mind but have someone at yard who uses on the worming bits. That helps lots.
But if you want a laugh when I had my previous horse he needed a tub of sedaline before vet came out to sedate him slightly so they could inject into the vein. But the weekend before I got crushed against the gate by another horse and ended up with a sling. With no one to help me I had to syringe in the sedaline for vet. I ended up with the sedaline on my sling after horse spat it out as I couldnt get his head up quick enough with my one arm. Sling went a disgusting yellow colour and it looked light I had dropped curry all over me. Vet found it amusing til we tried to inject in the vein and when I went for a check up at hospital a day later everyone looked at me like I had a disease and was given another sling. lol.
 
I have never had a problem shoving a syringe into their gobs and propelling it down their throats. Even ones people tell me won't have it.

*smug*

:)
 
The way I worm is by grabbing the horses nose and they than open their mouths and it goes stright down their thoath and don't even touch their Tongue. I use to worm the race yard 50 plus horses and this never failed even for the bad ones as they didn't expect a grabbed nose with worming.
 
Oh and I alway have the wormer ready and tucked in the back of my trousers. They don't see it coming.
I worm a lot who say " u won't do them" they never see it coming so no probs even the one who is ment to rear/spin etc at a bloody wormer : /
he's no prob with my way
 
Try getting a big syringe from the vet then chop off the nozzle and make the hole as big as you can. then give them some cheap apple sauce from it for a few days before they need worming and by the time you want to worm they are opening their mouths for it
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top