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[RC] Downloadable Horse Parasite Series - Michael Maul

The Horse.com has been publishing an interesting set of articles on parasite control in horses.

The whole series is at

http://www.thehorse.com/viewarticle.aspx?ID=5303

The last article says:

In far too many herds, parasite control for adult horses can be characterized as compliance with a recipe. It is still common practice at many farms to deworm all horses with Drug A, then wait
a stereotypic interval before all are treated
with Drug B. After another period of identical
duration, horses are treated yet a third
time, perhaps with Drug C, or maybe
another dose of A or B, and the pattern is
repeated throughout the entire calendar
year, according to a rotation recipe that is
now decades old.

Such rote approaches to parasite control
for mature horses are long overdue for
major revision for several reasons.

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