health & wellbeing
To facilitate that, we are now working alongside a growing number of equine vets and insurance companies.
“This new data also confirms the importance of the relationship between owner, equine vet and insurer in what is a vitally important aspect of ensuring that working horses and ponies at every level enjoy the best of health and wellbeing, which will underpin both maximum
performance and enjoyment.”
To find out more about ArcEquine, visit
www.arcequine. com or join the ArcEquine community on facebook and follow @arcequine on Twitter. The complete ArcEquine 2 kit costs £540.00. For a £60 discount use discount code AE5012 for telephone orders or at the online checkout.
Plan a Worming Programme tailor- made for you!
Worms are a fact of life for horses. Some are more important than others but all need controlling in order to keep our animals healthy. Gillian Booth SQP from Westgate Labs explains ....
Preparing to undertake a worm egg count in the laboratory
ArcEquine in use on a horse’s leg WIN Blue Chip Super Concentrated Balancer
If you love your horse, you’ll do anything to soothe the seasonal skin issues he may face this spring and Blue Chip is giving away a tub of its new Super Concentrated Balancer, plus a Blue Chip Saddlecloth and Baseball Cap to each of THREE readers.
Blue Chip’s new Super Concentrated Balancers offers and easy and cost effective way to feed horses, complimenting a fibre based diet with correct levels of vitamins, minerals and nutrients. Whole-cereal and molasses free the formulations are designed to maintain optimum health in all horses and ponies. Each winner can choose from Calming, Senior or Daily Health. Find out more online at
www.bluechipfeed.com
To enter, simply answer the following question:- What type of diet do Blue Chip’s Super Concentrated Balancers compliment?
Entries must be made online
atwww.onlineentry.co.uk
If you are reading the digital edition, simply click the link now - and remember to state which formulation you require and to include your full contact details.
Closing date: 31/03/2016.
The winner will be chosen at random after the closing date from all fully completed entries and notified by email. No postal entries will be accepted.
Controlling worms with drugs Before the availability of modern worming drugs, prior to the 1960s, horses died from worm burdens. Then there followed several decades when new miraculous drugs became available which could be easily administered by horse owners without the need for a vet to be involved. Horse worming programmes started with the drugs, not the horse, so that drugs appropriate for each season were given on a continuous roll. This advice has become so ingrained that many owners now find it difficult to change their perspective. Why are these programmes unsustainable? The main reason is that overuse of wormers is leading to resistance. The worms
adapt to survive the dose. When that happens the wormer you give may be partially or wholly ineffective. Not only that, each time the worms are exposed to the drug they have another opportunity to develop resistance so we need to keep that exposure as infrequent as possible. There is some resistance to all worming drugs already. It is especially important to preserve the most useful and effective, moxidectin, for future use so that there is a way to treat known wormy horses and to treat encysted stages of redworm.
Your horse is an individual. Good worm control now starts with your horse, not with the drugs. Every horse should have a
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