Equine Preventative Health
Care Recommendations
The following recommendations are
generalized and are provided as guidelines for the Mid-south
Area. Each horse's Preventative Health Care Program should be
individualized through disease risk assessment, based upon the
horse's intended use, travel, and contact with other equids.
Click here to see a sample
deworming rotation.
Click here to see a
deworming program.
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Stomach Bots:
There are 3 species of Horse Bot Flies.
The adult Bot Fly is hairy and beelike in appearance and is
about the size of a honey bee. Most horse owners have
seen the white, yellow, or black Bot Eggs attached to
the hairs of their horse's legs and mane. While
grooming the horse licks the eggs, and once in the horse's
mouth the egg hatches, and a larva is released. This
larva migrates to its host tissue (Nose, Throat, or Stomach
depending on fly species), at the host site the larva will
penetrate the tissue where it will grow until the next
spring when it is passed in the horses feces. The
larva then develops into an adult, and the lifecycle
repeats.Common problems caused by
bots are stomach ulcers with secondary infection and in
severe cases, unthriftiness and weight loss.
Horses should be dewormed with an approved
boticidal drug at least twice yearly to control bot fly
larvae.
Also note the Long Stem Feces in the
pictures, which indicates dental disease! |
Equine Nutrition
:: Equine Dentistry ::
Equine Vaccination/Deworming
Equine Mare & Foal Care
:: Equine Castration
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