Deworming mares after foaling

[Charlotte]

Another good article in the Feb '07 Horse Journal

VERY interesting about worming schedules, but the one thing that really jumped out at me was about foaling mares......... "Deworm the mare within 12 hours after foaling to prevent the foal being infected with Strongyloides larvae...........

I always deworm as soon as the mare passes manure....but sometimes that is longer than 12 hours

I've been a little concerned about administering dewormer until I'm sure the plumbing is working?

Also, foals to yearlings....don't rely on daily dewormer

This is a really good article reporting on what differing conditions require in the way of deworming, but bottom line is deworming more often than necessary hastens resistance in the parasites whatever chemical/s used.

Also, tips for accurate fecal egg counts

this periodical is one I would highly recommend....sort of a 'Consumer Reports' for horses

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Charlotte

 

[Viki]

It's just routine here. Banamine shot after foaling, and deworm med at the same time.

Viki

 

[Tony]

I worm the mare before the foal even stands.

 

[wwminis]

I worm the mare before the foal even stands.

[SIZE=14pt]We have always done the same as Tony!

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Bill

 

[Irish Hills Farm]

I also give the dewormer right after I give the mare banamine paste.

 

[Miniv]

I also give the dewormer right after I give the mare banamine paste.

We do the same........and as Tony stated, it's usually before the foal is standing.

 

[nootka]

I do it when I do the foal's navel, or thereabouts.

Since starting this, I have not had any foal heat diarrhea.

I have not had any adverse problems, just the one benefit that I have noted. I thought I had read somewhere that some of the medicine gets to the foal in the milk this way, but I can't be sure of that, and don't know where I read or heard it.

Liz M.

 

[Miniequine]

Thanks for the information.

Do you have a link to the article??

and

What dewormer do you use at foaling??

~Sandy

 

[rabbitsfizz]

I've never done it and I have no problem with foal scours, but I shall bear it in mind.

 

[Becky]

I, too, worm my mares after foaling, but like Charlotte I always wait until they poop. I've occasionally had a mare that acted a little impacted later after foaling so I sure didn't want to dump a load of worms into an impaction! Hence my reason for waiting until after they poop once. But I may rethink that.

I've always used an ivermectin based wormer to deworm after foaling.

 

[Kendra]

I've always wondered about this ... obviously it has worked well for many of you! Can someone explain something to me?

If you deworm the mare, and she does have a worm load, she'll be passing a lot of dead worms in her manure, correct?

And a newborn foal is going to eat mommas manure, and he's supposed to, to populate his gut with bacteria, right?

So isn't it bad for him to be ingesting dead (and probably some not-so-dead) parasites?

 

[Magic]

I've always wondered about this ... obviously it has worked well for many of you! Can someone explain something to me?

If you deworm the mare, and she does have a worm load, she'll be passing a lot of dead worms in her manure, correct?

And a newborn foal is going to eat mommas manure, and he's supposed to, to populate his gut with bacteria, right?

So isn't it bad for him to be ingesting dead (and probably some not-so-dead) parasites?

Better for the foal to be ingesting dead parasites rather than LIVE ones, IMO.

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Also, if a mare has been on a regular deworming schedule (with the rest of the herd) I would think that she wouldn't have much of a worm load.

I've routinely dewormed my mares immediately after foaling, with an ivermectin.

 

[sedeh]

I'm with the rest......banamine and ivermectin as soon as I see mare and foal are okay! My horses are routinely wormed(when the shoer comes everyone gets wormed :bgrin ) so I don't think there would be a big worm load to worry about.

 

[horsehug]

I also worm with ivermectin immediately after foaling.

Susan O.

 

[Getitia]

From what we have researched and have been advised by equine specialists is that when a mare foals, the hormones that she releases during foaling results in the encysted small strongyle larvae being released - thus deworming the mare within a 24 hour period of foaling will kill those larvae before they have a chance to transmit to the foal.

Because we deworm all adult horses year around on a rotational wormer basis on a bi-monthly schedule, we have not experienced a worm load issue following this practice.

Some research would indicate that often foal heat diarrhea (scours) is the result of the foals reaction to worms as opposed to a reaction of the dam being in season.

 

[zacharyfarms]

I always deworm the mare within 12 hours for the Strongyloids westeri, the equine threadworm. Threadworms are usually the first parasite a foal encounters and are commonly transmitted from the mare to the foal through nursing when larvae in the body tissues of the mare migrates to the mammary glands when signaled by the hormones of pregnancy and lactation.(don't you find that amazing) Shocked When you deworm the mare within up to 24 hours of foaling it kills the migrating larvae thus removing the immediate source of infection..12 hours is best..Threadworms also can be picked up by foals in mud, on the walls etc. anywhere that they lick. I routinely give an ounce of Seramune IGg before they ever get up to nurse and a half tube of ecoli endotoxin also within the 12 hours of foaling. Just what I do..I feel the foals need all the support we can give them while they are so susceptible to everything.