If you haven’t already submitted your horse’s first faecal egg count of the year as part of your targeted and responsible worming protoco, now is the time to do this. We recommend that a sample of each horse’s faeces is submitted to our laboratory four times a year (from early spring to late autumn/early winter).
With increasing levels of resistance to anthelmintics (‘wormers’), a targeted and responsible worming protocol is very important to protect your horse or pony against these internal parasites.
A critical part of worm control is regular dung removal from paddocks and, during the grazing season, carrying out WECs, which look at how many ‘roundworm’ eggs are in the faeces. This gives a good guide to how many roundworms are infecting the horse’s intestines.
Rossdales offers two worm control packages – our Standard Worm Control package and an Enhanced Worm Control package – in order to make worming your horse as convenient and cost effective as possible, and to give you peace of mind. Find out more about these packages here, or if you would like to discuss a worming programme for your horse or yard, please don’t hesitate to get in touch and one of our vets will be happy to advise you.
