Ridecamp: [RC] Re:Deworming schedules

> .  A healthy horse with normal gut flora and good farm management will 
> only need worming twice a year, if that.  I've seen reactions to wormers 
> and vaccines alike that are way worse than the WNV illnesses you are 
> describing.


And I've seen the innards of horses in surgery ly that were a godawful mess 
from verminous arteritis. Interestingly, an older surgeon whom I know told 
me the incidence of those is *way* down since the day when twice a year was 
the norm.

The optimum deworming interval for a given horse/herd varies widely 
depening on a number of environmental and management factors. To generalize 
that twice a year is all any hwalthy horse needs is foolish.
                       --CMNewell, DVM



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