ecrozier
Well-Known Member
Right, I am going to put my hands up and admit that my worming in the past has been slightly haphazard in that I never sat down and worked out a future plan for the year, I just went into the tack shop every six/twelve weeks depending on what wormer I had used the previous time and the very nice lady in there advised me what I should be using at that time of year (
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In my defence I had 3 horses on 14 acres of our own land, they were all ours and wormed together etc and fields were kept rotated etc. Did a worm count and they were all ok last summer.
However they are now on a liver yard as of the start of this year which doesn't have a co-ordinated plan, and having sold one of ours we are going into a field with two other horses, and I would like to put in place a proper worming plan for the 4 of them. Previously had still just been my 3 turned out together.
So I have had a look a few places and my suggestion from now is:
In next couple of weeks, Panacur 5 day Guard to be sure that nothing is hanging over from the winter
End of april, use Equimax to do general and tapeworms.
Beginning July, Equimax again to do general worming
End sept Equimax for general/tapeworms
Mid december, encysted redworms, robably equest
End Jan, bots, equest again?
Then this time next year (mid march probably) 5 day guard again.
Does that make sense? Should I use something more specific for the tapeworms? Or is equimax ok to do that as well as general worming over the summer?
Also should I change that next year or could I go round that plan again without risking them building up an immunity?
Hope that makes sense, I really want to be more organised about this this year and possibly encourage the rest of the yard to do the same....
In my defence I had 3 horses on 14 acres of our own land, they were all ours and wormed together etc and fields were kept rotated etc. Did a worm count and they were all ok last summer.
However they are now on a liver yard as of the start of this year which doesn't have a co-ordinated plan, and having sold one of ours we are going into a field with two other horses, and I would like to put in place a proper worming plan for the 4 of them. Previously had still just been my 3 turned out together.
So I have had a look a few places and my suggestion from now is:
In next couple of weeks, Panacur 5 day Guard to be sure that nothing is hanging over from the winter
End of april, use Equimax to do general and tapeworms.
Beginning July, Equimax again to do general worming
End sept Equimax for general/tapeworms
Mid december, encysted redworms, robably equest
End Jan, bots, equest again?
Then this time next year (mid march probably) 5 day guard again.
Does that make sense? Should I use something more specific for the tapeworms? Or is equimax ok to do that as well as general worming over the summer?
Also should I change that next year or could I go round that plan again without risking them building up an immunity?
Hope that makes sense, I really want to be more organised about this this year and possibly encourage the rest of the yard to do the same....
