7 – Meet the nematodes

Some nematodes tin fifty-fifty infect foals through contaminated mare’s milk.
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Nematodes are the parasitic equivalent of the Addams family, simply without the funny side. Most of your deworming movement volition focus on keeping nematodes nether control.

The principal nematodes that touching on horses are large strongyles, pocket-size strongyles, large roundworms, threadworms too pinworms.

We’ll move dealing alongside each of these nematodes inwards greater item later, simply essentially nematodes follow like life cycles.

The eggs seat past times adult nematodes mostly buy the farm out of the Equus caballus inwards dung. Several larval stages volition mostly follow either inwards the dung or the soil, or both.

Their final moulting inwards the surroundings volition attain an infective larvae alongside the aim of existence eaten past times a passing Equus caballus every bit it browses its paddock or snuffles inwards its bedding.

With or too thence kinds of nematodes, infection tin occur past times licking a contaminated coat too or too thence tin fifty-fifty move passed to foals through contaminated mare’s milk.

In the illustration of large roundworms or pinworms, the parasite relies on the ingestion of the eggs directly, non larvae.

Each variety of nematode volition accept a dissimilar outcome on a horse’s health, alongside much depending upon the marker of infection.

Suffice to grade that nematodes are world enemy issue i – top of the equine “Ten close unwanted” list.

If y'all deworming programme manages to knock nematodes out of the park, there’s a rattling proficient run a jeopardy you’ll accept the other cardinal parasites nether control, too, except, perhaps, tapeworms.

Let’s at nowadays await at each of these parasites inwards detail.

» Next: Strong-arm tactics against strongyles

First published on Horsetalk.co.nz in February, 2009

 

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