Zoetis, The Horse Bring You Smart Equine Parasite Control Awareness Month
The Horse Staff
August 5, 2024
Learn how to optimize your parasite control program all month long. Sponsored by Zoetis.
Learn how to optimize your parasite control program all month long. Sponsored by Zoetis.
Have your veterinarian perform a fecal egg count on your horse before deworming to ensure your protocol is effective and reduce the incidence of parasite resistance.
Dr. Martin Nielsen offers solutions for 7 common problems veterinarians and their technicians encounter when performing FECs.
Ensure your senior horse or pony is prepared for a healthy and happy year ahead.
8 important tasks to check off your list before the colder weather arrives.
Learn how to give your horse oral medications safely.
Free-roaming Przewalski’s horses experience notable changes in their gut microbiota after annual deworming.
Senior horses with PPID need careful monitoring and preventive care because of equine Cushing’s effects on immunity, exercise tolerance, thermoregulation, and wound healing.
What scientists are learning about equine parasite resistance to dewormers and how to curb it.
Researchers found treating all horses on a farm four or six times a year with moxidectin or ivermectin makes worms develop anthelmintic resistance two to three times faster than other recommended programs.
A researcher who specializes in aging equines offers nutrition, dental care, parasite control, vaccination, exercise, and health monitoring for seniors.
Alternating or commingling cows with horses on pastures appears to effectively reduce strongyle burdens in both species, according to two studies.
Deworming doesn’t have to be dull! Brush up on your parasite control knowledge with these expert-approved facts.
Use this guide to help create an internal parasite control program for your adult horse.
Research shows resistance among cyathostomins (small strongyles) to the three main groups of anthelmintic (antiparasitic) drugs commonly used to deworm horses.
Scientists have reported widespread parasite resistance against every anthelmintic drug class on the U.S. market.
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