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Here's the rest of the information: So that’s my bot-fly spiel. Normally I write about strongyles (my favourite), and so I shall, of course, make a mention of them here too. I always recommend a mid-late autumn deworming for ALL HORSES because it a) cleans out any bots and b) all horses really should have a strongyle clean out once a year as well. I may be against deworming for the sake of deworming, however, that is only if you are doing it 3 or 4 or more times a year. Strongyles can have a lifecycle of as little as 6 weeks. In addition, at any one point, about 90% of the strongyle population is living on the pasture, not in the horse. Therefore, the concept of using chemical dewormers inside the horse to break the lifecycle of strongyles would not work. At all. So, we chose our annual deworming clean-out to line up with as many other parasites as possible. All boticide dewormers are also effective against strongyles so deworming in autumn is a 2-for-1 type deal. You should also consider using a dewormer that also contains praziquantel to treat for tapeworms to get a complete cleanout, just in case tapeworms are present. If your horses are only being treated once a year, it is good to do as complete a treatment as possible. Lastly… wait, second lastly.. this is a topic to complex to get into here, but: this time of year is key for larval cyathostomins, where encysted larvae have mass emergences from the intestine wall, in response to changes in weather (eg in VIC as it cools and becomes wetter again). Deworming and removing adult populations of worms can act as a trigger for larval re-emergence, which is also why I often baulk at deworming horses now. The larvae may slowly re-emerge coming into the cooler weather and treating in mid-late autumn may be a safer bet to remove adults and emerged larvae. The research on this is sketchy at best, however, these are patterns shown in cattle and hypothetically should translate over into horses. And lastly (pat on the back for reading this far): just because I’m recommending deworming all horses does not mean I am not recommending FECs in autumn. An FEC will tell you important things about your horse's health and pick up anything odd that may be happening (eg tapeworm you didn’t know about). It will also allow you to test drug efficacy. Autumn should be a key time for everyone to do a FECRT (faecal egg count reduction test), where you get FECs done before and after deworming to make sure that it worked. If you only deworm once a year, then you’ve only got one chance for a FECRT, and you cannot, I repeat, you CANNOT do a FECRT without an FEC before to compare to. If you’d like to organise FECs and FECRTs for your horses this autumn, check out the website for postal submission and drop-off points/events. https://www.wormcheckaustralia.com/

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