Deworming Young Horses

Work with your veterinarian to properly time treatment and avoid perpetuating drug-resistant parasites.
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Target this important age group by working with your veterinarian to time treatment and avoid perpetuating drug-resistant parasites.

Deworming foals and young horses can be a bit of a Catch-22: They are more vulnerable to internal parasite infection than adult horses; however, aggressive deworming increases the risk of developing drug-resistant parasite populations. To reach a happy medium, owners should consider less-intensive deworming of this age group.

"Traditionally, we started deworming early, often less than a month of age, and repeated the treatments as often as monthly or bimonthly during the first year of life," explains Craig Reinemeyer, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVM, president of East Tennessee Clinical Research Inc., in Rockwood. "In hindsight, this was a bad idea."

In this article we will address good strategies for deworming youngsters, from foals to weanlings and beyond

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Heather Smith Thomas ranches with her husband near Salmon, Idaho, raising cattle and a few horses. She has a B.A. in English and history from University of Puget Sound (1966). She has raised and trained horses for 50 years, and has been writing freelance articles and books nearly that long, publishing 20 books and more than 9,000 articles for horse and livestock publications. Some of her books include Understanding Equine Hoof Care, The Horse Conformation Handbook, Care and Management of Horses, Storey’s Guide to Raising Horses and Storey’s Guide to Training Horses. Besides having her own blog, www.heathersmiththomas.blogspot.com, she writes a biweekly blog at https://insidestorey.blogspot.com that comes out on Tuesdays.

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