De-worming Your Horse

Many horse owners have a regular de-worming program for
their horses. De-worming your horse is vital to your horses
over-all health and without a regular program in place your
horse will become a host for worms. Lasting internal damage to
your horse will result if you do not have a de-worming program
in place.

Rotation refers to rotating the class of drug you use to
deworm your horse or horses. The most popular dewormers
fall into three categories:

(1)avermectins (ivermectin and moxidectin)

(2) benzimazoles (Panacur, Anthelcide)

(3) pyrantels (Strongid) and the like.

Personally I use all three of these categories in my rotation
program. In my personal opinion Ivermectin is the best of all
three categories. It is inexpensive and highly effective. It
kills all types of parasites and it is not
harmful to your horse or other animals. Most vets recommend
that you give an adult horse the full dosage because it is hard
to overdose your horse. On the other hand if you do not
give your horse enough of the invermectin it won't do
the job, so I give my horses the full tube and I also
rotate the type of de-wormer I use every 6-8 weeks.