Horse worms and worming: Types of ... young horses may cough and have nasal discharge in addition to the other common signs. Horses with pinworm may suffer irritation around the tail area and ...

I understand how using fecal egg counts to guide deworming schedules helps with parasite resistance. But why doesn’t rotating ...

Equine Parasites: 6 Tips on Learning to Live With Worms. By Christy West; February 21, 2010 ...

Three types of horse bots are found in Eddy County: the common horse bot or nit fly, Gastrophilus intestinalis; the throat bot or chin fly, G. nasalis; and the nose bot or nose fly, G. hemorrhoidalis.

Control of internal parasites is an important part of horse health management programs because the animals easily acquire heavy infections. Few horses are completely free of parasites and the animals ...

This article was published 20/01/2017 (3062 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. There is an age-old battle going on in our horses between their immune systems and parasite ...

It is important to take into consideration that some of these fungi are also transmittable to other animals and humans. So, take special precautions when treating ringworm particularly to help ...

Editor's note: This article is part of TheHorse.com's ongoing coverage of topics presented at the 2012 Kentucky Equine Research Conference, held May 17-18 in Lexington, Ky.

All horses have worms, but keeping them in check is no longer as simple as feeding a dewormer at regular intervals, as Horse & Hound's experts explain ...