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Discussion on Drench worming method
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Ccole8
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Posted on Monday, Apr 14, 2003 - 8:33 pm:
I recently had a new vet worm my now pasture-kept retired show horses. He offered tube or paste worming. I went with tube worming only to learn later that my show horse trainer prefers drench worming. Can you tell me what the benfits are for drench worming (aside from less stress to the animal) and why more vets don't use this as the preferred method?
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DrO
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Posted on Tuesday, Apr 15, 2003 - 7:03 am:
Drench? You drench cows but usually not very sucessfully. Can you describe how you did this Cathryn? Also why would this be an improvement over the paste.
DrO
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Ccole8
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Posted on Tuesday, Apr 15, 2003 - 3:11 pm:
Okay, I got some clarification from the show horse vet. They use drenching as the method to administer a paste wormer like Ivermectin.
Do you suggest for my pasture horses that I self administer paste every 30-60 days and then have a vet come out to tube worm a few times a year? What is the best combination with the least amount of stress to the animal? Seems tube worming is pretty stressful and if it isn't necessary I would rather do it another way. Thanks, C.
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Tagloili
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Posted on Tuesday, Apr 15, 2003 - 7:42 pm:
We do not tube worm our horses. For years, we would paste worm, rotating every eight weeks when farrier came out. However, all horses now get daily Strongid C and a yearly paste with Quest.
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DrO
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Posted on Tuesday, Apr 15, 2003 - 9:27 pm:
Drench a paste...this still is not making sense to me. Concerning our deworming recommendations see, Care for Horses » Disease Prevention and Health Care » Deworming and Parasite Control. It gives precise recommedations for deworming programs.
DrO
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Jimhug
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Posted on Tuesday, Apr 15, 2003 - 9:43 pm:
Could she be referring to using a pour on ivermectin- like you might with cattle?
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DrO
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Posted on Wednesday, Apr 16, 2003 - 6:08 am:
That may explain it, James. Usually drenching is associated with forcing the cow to swallow a large volumes of fluid by elevating the head, pouring in the fluid and before he can breath he must swallow the fluid. Squirting in small amounts of fluid, like the liquid forms of ivermectin, might be referred to as drenching.
DrO
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Chrism
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Posted on Wednesday, Apr 16, 2003 - 10:43 am:
I've converted to paste worming only long ago. As long as the horse is consuming the past wormer and not spitting it out, I see no reason to pay for a tube worming or inconvenience the horse unnecessarily.
I was under the impression that "drenching" was the UK version of "tubing" but what do I know? GRIN
Cheers.
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Ccole8
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Posted on Wednesday, Apr 16, 2003 - 6:39 pm:
Thanks for all the input. The vet does use a large metal injector to force the stuff down the horses throat. So sounds like her use of the word "drenching" just suggests a more forced method of paste worming. Now I understand what drenching cattle means, and it isn't the same.
I will stick to personally administering paste wormers for my pasture horses as described in your article, and skip the tube worming all together. Too stressful. Will monitor the results and adjust accordingly. Many thanks for the info.
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Sonnynbr
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Posted on Monday, Apr 21, 2003 - 7:12 am:
I thought a horse was an obligate nose breather? A horse cannot breathe thru its mouth...so, if you "drenched " him he can still breathe all along...according to the previous definition of cow drenchimg where a cow is forced fluids before he can take a breath? Dr O- does a cow use nose and mouth to breathe??? See, you learn something new everyday!
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DrO
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Posted on Wednesday, Apr 23, 2003 - 8:58 am:
I am unsure Sister when it comes to cows, though this is the theory my experience is that he can hold it indefinately so it does not work very well in cows either unless you can elevate the head longer than he cares not to swallow.
DrO
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