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It is critical that horse and yard owners and vets work together to delay further resistance to wormers, as research finds “vital clues” to aid the fight. Two surveys were organised by Project WORMS (Working to Overcome Resistance and Make for a Sustainable future). The aim was to investigate parasite control in UK horses, identify […]

More than half of the cases referred to hospital in the study did not survive, the researchers report.

More than half the horses referred to hospital did not survive the mass outbreak of encysted strongyles in their gut.

Project WORMS has been launched in Britain to help find a solution to the rapidly growing problem of resistance to equine worming products.

Vets and researchers have joined forces on a project aimed at combating the “serious and imminent threat to the equine industry” posed by wormer resistance. H&H has reported on the need for the industry to work together to deal with the issue, and to help safeguard the drugs we have for future use. Now, collaborative […]

Horsetalk.co.nz The commonest types of worms that infect equids are the small strongyles (also known as cyathostomins). A group of British equine veterinarians says an anthelmintic resistance disaster is looming unless horse owners radically change their ways. In a letter to the journal Veterinary Record, David Rendle and colleagues from the British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA) anthelmintic working group reported the findings of a small-scale survey into the use of fecal worm egg count...

Horse & Hound Trending: The owner of a horse who underwent surgery to remove his sheath, part of his penis and two growths the size of grapefruit wants to raise awareness of melanomas, and the importance of sheath-cleaning. East Sussex-based Annabel Dry thought she was going to lose her 11-year-old Highland gelding Angus when vets discovered the extent of his issues, late last year. Annabel told H&H it was thanks to a friend’s diversifying her business that the melanomas were discovered...