Episode 180 features our protocols for deworming horses; the Critter of the Show is the sloth; in Critter Nutrition we focus on bringing home a new puppy; and in Coffee Klatch we ask what characteristics of your horse or dog or cat reflect a part of your own personality?
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Guests and Links for Episode 180:
- Co-Hosts: Tigger Montague of Biostar US and Pati Pierucci of Pierucci Dressage
- Article: Bringing Home a New Puppy by BioStar US
- Ask Hedwig
- Learn more about holistic supplements for your horse and dog at Biostar US
Tigger on deworming horses:
“[De]worming is something everybody’s got a different opinion about. My worming protocol is to do a fecal in the spring. These horses are retired, literally in a closed system where no horses come in or out, so they’re not exposed to a lot. So I do a fecal in the spring, always around the full moon, and then depending on the count or whether they’re clear, that dictates how I’m going to worm them. However, this year I did something a little different. They all had virtually zero egg count — so low that normally i would have not wormed them — but for some strange reason I thought I’m just going to hit them with Ivermectin this time, so that’s what I did.
I don’t worm every six weeks. That’s an old protocol I used to do when i was competing, but now we know that worms have become resistant to most of the wormers. So that’s why I always do a fecal. If I have a higher egg count, I’ll do another fecal in eight weeks, but I haven’t had that in a long time. But by next round, probably in September, that will probably be Strongid. I just do it and drop it off at the vet…”
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Photo Credits: header – BioStar US, sloth – Pixabay
