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Sort of a follow on from another thread. If a horse is routinely wormed throughout the year does it still need moxidectin for insisted red worm in the winter?
 
From personal experience, I would say yes. I switched from routine worming to egg counts, trying to be eco friendly and all that. After two bouts of mild colic, at roughly the same time of year, twelve months apart, I discovered that egg counts cannot pick out red worm, and routine winter worming is still recommended, alongside the count.....which rather makes a nonsense of egg counting.
 
Highmileagecob said:
From personal experience, I would say yes. I switched from routine worming to egg counts, trying to be eco friendly and all that. After two bouts of mild colic, at roughly the same time of year, twelve months apart, I discovered that egg counts cannot pick out red worm, and routine winter worming is still recommended, alongside the count.....which rather makes a nonsense of egg counting.
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I got caught out like this too. Tbh I think "routine worming" has a different meaning depending who you talk to. Like most people I know personally will routinely worm maybe 2-3 times a year max, but I have heard of other people doing it much more frequently. If your definition of routine worming means a wormer every 8-10 weeks then replacing several of those doses with an FEC and reserving an "always" dose for encysted redworm in January can make a dig difference.
 
smolmaus said:
I got caught out like this too. Tbh I think "routine worming" has a different meaning depending who you talk to. Like most people I know personally will routinely worm maybe 2-3 times a year max, but I have heard of other people doing it much more frequently. If your definition of routine worming means a wormer every 8-10 weeks then replacing several of those doses with an FEC and reserving an "always" dose for encysted redworm in January can make a dig difference.
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Routine winter worming, meaning the encysted red worm dose of moxidectin after the first frost.
 
I really need to learn about worming properly.

Honestly, I have always got by just winging a pramox down them when I remember 😳
 
Jenko109 said:
I really need to learn about worming properly.

Honestly, I have always got by just winging a pramox down them when I remember 😳
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I do. It’s the only one I am dead set on my ways on!
I don’t routinely worm otherwise but do poo pick and test, theory being I’d then obviously worm if need be but it never is.
I always worm for encysted reds in winter though.
 
Jenko109 said:
I really need to learn about worming properly.

Honestly, I have always got by just winging a pramox down them when I remember 😳
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To be fair, if you did that in say Dec/Jan and a few tests here and there to confirm and keep check on the situation you’re not going far wrong.

Only a pramox in the wrong months would be dodgy
 
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