If you board your horse, a safe and healthy environment for your horse is of utmost importance. With resistance increasing in small strongyles and no new dewormer on the horizon, horse owners should be asking barn managers about parasite practices wherever they board. According to Merial’s article on parasite resistance, parasite resistance is a farm situation. Yet each farm will be impacted by the individual horses living on it, so it makes sense to ask your barn manager about parasite control practices. Consider asking the following questions.
If you have questions about parasites or your testing and treatment program contact Dr. John Byrd at www.horsemenslab.com.
Horsemen’s Laboratory owner Dr. John Byrd has extensive experience with racing and breeding horses and maintains Westbrook Boarding Stable. He created Horsemen’s Laboratory in 1992 so that horse owners could better evaluate their worm control programs and make informed decisions about deworming their horses. To learn more about Horsemen’s Laboratory, parasites, to sign up for the monthly newsletter, and to order fecal egg count testing kits and visit www.horsemenslab.com.
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I wish I had the money to get a fecal count done. i am sure the vets around here, would really charge alot, because they do not do horse-stuff unless they have to. The nearest horse vet charges 150 dollars "just" to come to our place.
Great advice.