Im re-working our worming schedule, and noticed the daily feed strongid dewormer.
has anyone else used this for say, a week, as their rotation? rather than feeding all the time?
Im thinking as in, use the daily feed through rather than the paste, for one set time and then continue with the rotation as usual.
Not sure if this is plausible due to the amount of pyrentel they would ultimately get, but it was just an idea.
Any thoughts?
It’s pointless and useless to do it for a week. That’s not how it works. All you’ll do is increase the chances of resistance.
What else are you considering in the re-work? What’s the current program?
We have a very closed group. With horses staying on the farm most of their lives. Right now we just do Quest plus twice a year with vaccinations, but i was thinking of adding in a Pyrantel and an Ivermectin.
Some of the young horses now are going to be leaving the farm for shows, but this is a new thing. Previously horses didnt leave the farm.
What is the reasoning for thinking of adding pyrantel (pamoate the paste?) and another ivermectin?
What made you decide to do QP twice a year, instead of QP in the Spring and Equimax in the Fall?
The youngsters heading to and from shows won’t likely change the twice a year deworming. But, you will need and want to start incorporating FECs in the program to keep tabs on things.
The best time for FECs is late Winter before the Spring deworming, and late Summer.
I’ll second JB. Pyrantel pamoate is useful in a double dose to treat as a tape dewormers and was the drug of choice for that until Praziquantel came along. If you deworm in between Quest doses, an appropriate amount of Ivermectin would do the job, and I hope that at least one preferably the Fall dose is Quest Plus.
I find that more people do more harm by assuming that one tube of dewormer is appropriate for all horses, when some by weight require 1&1/2 tubes +/-.
Doing FECRTs (reduction tests) if you have a high enough FEC, will give you a great opportunity to determine if pyrantel pamoate is effective on a given farm, and if so, would be a much better “between” use than ivermectin, in order to save ivermectin as much as possible.
Definitely not. Daily dewormer (before it fell out of favor due to resistance issues) was started the day after giving a regular dewormer because it wasn’t meant to reduce the load, just to keep it from rebuilding.
I do Quest Plus in spring and Equimax in fall. We do fecal tests in between to make sure those are doing an adequate job. If not, we’d add another dewormer based on the results.
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