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RE: [RC] [RC] natural horse wormers? - Chris Paus

Ive' got a good friend who would agree with this, elly. she is into "natural" in a big way. She's a science teacher and loves research. constantly reads and researches. But she said in all her studies there has never been any evidence that "natural" wormers, such as DE, actually work, or that natural antibiotics, such as echinacia, work either. I was very surprised to hear this from her.




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From: "Burnett, Elly" <egburnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linda Mirams" <lbm@xxxxxxx>,"RIDECAMP" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [RC] natural horse wormers?
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:25:56 -0700

No, there are no natural wormers.  I know a lot of people have reservations about using chemicals on their horses, but wormer is one of those things you're going to have to bite the bullet on.  It's true--effective wormers are one of the main reasons we have horses living well into their 30's these days.  Our pathology professor at the university (who's older than dirt), said that every single horse they necropsied back in the day had strongylus vulgaris lesions in their cranial mesentaric arteries.  These worms can cause, most importantly, thromboembolic colic, which is an extremely serious form of colic (dead worm pieces lodging in very important arterial supplies for large amounts of intestines=painful death).  He said now that worming treatments have become so effective, they see horses in their 30's with the most pristine cranial mesentaric arteries ever.

So there aren't any natural wormers other than rotational grazing, as Linda mentioned, and even then, it's not 100%.

Elly



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