A vet has urged owners to be aware of worming horses correctly after a mare with a huge ascarid (large roundworm) worm burden had to be put down. Doug Thal DVM DABVP of Thal Equine in Santa ...

Some social media users pushed back on the claim that ivermectin was a "horse de-worming" drug ... a "novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites" called ivermectin.

Roundworms or ascarids (Parascaris equorum) are large white worms that can grow up to 50cm in length. They live in the small intestine of young horses (typically foals, yearlings and two-year-olds).

Horses don’t tolerate diarrhea as well as ... Probably the least known disease that raccoons carry is called raccoon roundworm. It is an intestinal parasite for the raccoons that can get into ...

Other finds have included a 9,000 year old bison, a juvenile woolly rhino, and ancient roundworms that were reportedly ... an extinct baby horse, so well preserved that its skin, hair, tail ...

TIRUNELVELI: A white male horse endured agonizing moments as doctors pulled a roundworm from its eye in a 40-minute operation at the Veterinary College and Research (VC&RI) Institute here on Tuesday.