ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: [endurance] Paste wormer and exercise

Re: [endurance] Paste wormer and exercise

Wendy Milner (wendy@wendy.cnd.hp.com)
Thu, 23 May 96 11:28:47 MDT

>
> This is a question I've had in the back of my mind for awhile. I commonly
> will not worm my horses with either a wormer such as Ivermectin or the
> other regular paste wormers within a week of a competition either before
> or after, (but mostly before) and I don't ride them the day or next day
> after I give it. Am I being too conservative? I have it in my head that
> the deworming is stressful on their bodies and would cause some type of
> problem. I don't have a clue what the problem would be, but I'm just
> careful.

Deworming is stressful *if* the horse has not been on a regular
program. If this is the case, the horse will be ridding its body
of lots of worms. This is the stress. If on the other hand, you
have your horse on a regular program, ie. every other month or so,
then the horse should not be experiencing major stress.

--
Wendy  (Not a vet, just looked it up before)


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