New horses on the yard should have a tapeworm test and a FWEC, or be treated for both tapeworms and roundworms, before they are turned out with others. In some yards, targeted worming may not be ...

While some horses will carry tapeworms while showing no signs, large burdens can cause problems, including spasmodic colic, particularly in young horses.

It should, he said, be carried out with caution as resistance was just as biologically feasible in tapeworms as has been experienced with strongyles and ascarids in horses. “Therefore ...

New data shows tapeworm prevalence on West Coast farms as 17.3% in California, 36.5% in Oregon and 25.3% in Washington. A 2003 study in equine parasitology by Craig Reinemeyer, DVM, PhD, of East ...

Diagnostic deworming of horses with anti-tapeworm drugs could play an important role in reducing resistance to antiparasitic drugs, report veterinarians from Japan and North America.

The horse world has been aware of drug resistance to intestinal parasites for decades, but it has been primarily relegated to three types: ascarids, pinworms, and small strongyles. The Horse ...

For horses, this is the dung mite, which accidentally picks up the tapeworm egg. The horse then ends up eating the mites while grazing, because they’re everywhere. “If there’s grass, there ...