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Post by Ryan&Dizzy on Jan 4, 2007 0:47:12 GMT 1
i brought Otto home for christmas thinking it would be easier and im wishing i hadnt! the YO negated to tell me that there has been a horse on the yard tested possitive for tapeworm about a week before i got back. so i sent the uni people an email to ask what they wanted me to do worming wise.
and they want we to worm him tomorrow thwn keep him in till he goes home on sat. ive just about got Otto used to being stabled at night with friends without doing anything rediculous...ie running threw the walls! but now ive got to keep him in for 2 and a half days on his own... i dont know how too!
any ideas for keeping ponies amused? i was planning on as much hay as i can get in! apples in his water bucket to bob for, swedes on strings, bits of carrot hid round his stable etc... any others?
uni wont let him go back if hes not been in from tomorrow and i also dont want a tapewormy pony so i dearnt just throw him out and hope they dont find out!
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Post by janetgeorge on Jan 4, 2007 1:37:17 GMT 1
and they want we to worm him tomorrow thwn keep him in till he goes home on sat. ive just about got Otto used to being stabled at night with friends without doing anything rediculous...ie running threw the walls! but now ive got to keep him in for 2 and a half days on his own... i dont know how too! any ideas for keeping ponies amused? i was planning on as much hay as i can get in! apples in his water bucket to bob for, swedes on strings, bits of carrot hid round his stable etc... any others? uni wont let him go back if hes not been in from tomorrow and i also dont want a tapewormy pony so i dearnt just throw him out and hope they dont find out! Frankly, they're barmy. Don't they KNOW where tapeworm comes from! You can keep a horse in from now until next Christmas but it won't stop it being infected with tapeworm unless you neglect to give it hay or haylage!! As long as horses are wormed twice a year with a suitable wormer there is unlikely to be a major problem (although untreated cases have a HIGH risk of colic!) Mind you, as long as you can ride him for an hour each day, and perhaps walk him out in hand, he should survive 2 days. Or turn him out but make sure he's mud-free when he goes back. Don't worry, he is probably LESS likely to get tapeworm in the field at this time of year than he is to get it from forage! |
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Post by Ryan&Dizzy on Jan 4, 2007 1:52:13 GMT 1
i must say that im not best good on the wormy frount... always been on yard that sort out worming for me (or my sister has sorted it out) and all i have to do is buy the wormer and give it him!
they are really old fashioned about worming at college ie they are supposed to be in for 48 hours after worming they are wormed on a worming plan...etc... they had consulted there vet to ask about what i should do with the beast .
the vet that did the tests on the horse at our yard had said that it was likely to have come from the pasture from something like a fox etc...but i dont know what made him come to this conclusion ive just been told be people on the yard... the YO has still not mentioned it to me nither has the owner of the horse so im only going on a sign on the notice board and wot others have told me.
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Post by janetgeorge on Jan 4, 2007 10:09:35 GMT 1
the vet that did the tests on the horse at our yard had said that it was likely to have come from the pasture from something like a fox etc...but i dont know what made him come to this conclusion ive just been told be people on the yard... the YO has still not mentioned it to me nither has the owner of the horse so im only going on a sign on the notice board and wot others have told me. Oh dear - vet needs to learn about tapeworms. The varieties that affect horses are NOT the same as those that affect dogs/foxes/cats! Horses get Anoplocephala perfoliata, Anoplocephala mamillana, and Anoplocephala magna, with the intermediate host being orbatid mites which live on pasture and in hay and haylage. Dogs (and foxes) are most commonly affected by Dipylidium caninum, and by Taenia species, and the Echinococcus species (which also has sheep and humans as intermediate hosts) |
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Post by sm on Jan 4, 2007 10:55:33 GMT 1
Well if you go with keeping additional suggestions . Split the exercise into several sessions preferable with variety hack, school, lunge, walk in hand etc. Try spending as much time with him as possible. A good long groom/massage/TTouch. Share a good book with him, mine like looking at the pictures. Teach him clicker training
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