The Disturbing Truth About Neck Threadworms and Your Itchy Horse
Look on any ivermectin or moxidectin-based wormer packet and you’ll see a long list of parasites. Tucked in neatly at the end – it’s nearly always at the end – you’ll see the words Onchocerca...
View ArticleHow to Fight the Big Fight against Neck Threadworms
This follow-up to ‘The Disturbing Truth About Neck Threadworms and your Itchy Horse’ discusses how to manage the parasites, once you know your horse has them. The original article was aimed at my...
View ArticleThe Worm That Kills – And Why Only Two Worming Chemicals Can Stop It
After worming with standard wormers, some horses become critically ill with colic. Some even die. This guest post by Ann Nyland explains why this can happen in horses that haven’t received chemical...
View ArticleWhy Thinking About Neck Threadworms Still Leaves Us Scratching Our Heads
Less than 12 months ago, I wrote about neck threadworms and how they might be behind many horses’ frantic itching. The uptake on that article continues to astonish me. It has now had well over 60,000...
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