yard worming programme being ignored

[darkhorse123]

On my diy yard the yo tells us all when we have to worm our horses and what to use
However i know some people are doing egg counts and ignoring yos advice ie not worming what and when he says
Our fields are never poo picked, liveries just dont poo pick (which i dont agree with ) - should i be worried?
Should i ignore yo and do my own eggcount and worm accordingly?????

 

[iconique]

There's a lot of people doing worm counts and only worming if needed now, they tend to do a large dosage in the autumn to cover tape worms and cover all other bases. or blood test for the tapes?

The question is, if there are no eggs do you want to put a drug that is getting resistance because apparently its been overused into your horse and potentially contributing to the problem?

However it also appears that the worm burden usually can only be found in 20% of the population in a herd??

I'm no expert, but follow the worm counts, all new horses or horses that have been away are isolated and worm counted before they join the others. But we do that for all of them, perhaps you need to speak to your vet and yard manager??

 

[Miss L Toe]

The general view is that worm counts are better for spring and summer worming, but all should be organised in one herd, so that all are done on same day, same idea for the rest of the year, all yards should have a policy which treats the equines on a herd basis, personally, I am against poisoning my boy four times a year, in the first worm count he had to be treated, but in the last one, he had no worms, and was not treated. I am considering a blood test for tape worms.

 

[soloequestrian]

Could you not persuade your YO to look at an egg-counting-based programme for the whole yard? It should save money in the long run, and of course is the recommended way to worm these days to try to preserve the effectiveness of the wormers we have.

 

[sisco]

Our YO organises the worming/worm count when its time to worm or do a worm count the wormers or pots for worm count are left in the tack room with horses name on them and the cost is added to your livery bill. This way every horse is wormed at the same time and we poo pick every week.

 

[Marydoll]

Speak to yard manager to ask if he's open to a meeting with liveries to discuss the situation, if you want to go down the worm count route, you really all need to be lifting the droppings from the fields,and making sure the field management is done well, unless fields are huge or they'll end up carrying exess worms and need worming anyway.
Good pasture management is needed to make it work.
We lift 2 barrows of dung per horse out of field each week .
It sounds like youre all doing your own thing which iisnt ideal, a meeting may help sort it out for everyone