Interested to know how many people have actually experienced a case of cyathostomiasis i.e. the horse becoming ill due to mass eruption of small red worm larvae from the gut.I've been looking at this recently and the death rate tends to be expressed as 50% but that's in a very small number of horses that have already been diagnosed with the condition. In my understanding, fears about encysted red worms are what keep the rate of worming up high, which in turn is leading to ever increasing problems with resistance. There is some evidence that horses can live very happily with much higher worm burdens that we traditionally think - one paper suggesting that as high as 10,000 eggs per gram could be ignored.Have we got it the wrong way on because our fears for our individual horses are much more powerful than the vague fear that we will run out of worming medicine completely if we don't change our management practices soon?
01-24-2018, 04:20 AM
Larval cyathostomiasis (encysted redworm)
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