I love any free horse related event and especially love sharing information about them. Perhaps you’re able to go to one because someone’s taken the time to share that information. One of interest particularly for people in my local area is an upcoming Faecal Egg Count Workshop.
The event is to be held in Wangaratta, Victoria Australia on Monday, March 18, 2019. As the Facebook event states:
- Learn how to carry out a Faecal Egg Count
- Interpret the results and what this means for you and your horse moving forward
- Presented by Allison Arnott of Ovens Valley Equine
This event runs from 6.30pm – 8.30pm, with 6pm arrival time encouraged. It’s hosted by North East & Surrounds Equine Land Care. As an added bonus, the event is free and light refreshments are provided.
The practice for worming horses used to be to do it often – say each season. Then there was a focus on rotating the active ingredient in wormers. Now it’s encouraged to carry out a faecal egg count on horses. This involves a sample of manure and determining how many eggs from worms are within the manure.
Based on this, it is then determined if it’s necessary to worm a horse. In this way, only horses considered to have a sizeable worm burden are wormed. This is in the hopes of discouraging worms building up resistance to active ingredients in worming pastes.
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