This message is from: Jean Gayle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gail. It is my understanding that the horse ingests the egg when he licks
orgrooms himself. Maybe that is wrong or they ingest when the egg falls to
the grass. Whatever, in all this mud they will drown if the latter is the
case.
-Original Message-
From: GAIL RUSSELL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: Bot lifestyle?
This message is from: GAIL RUSSELL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
While we are discussing bots, :) - can anyone clear up a bot lifestyle
question I have? My QH came to me in the fall with legs *yellow* with
bots.
He is a fusspot about having them all taken off, though I've got most of
them off - except for a few on long hairs under his chest, flank etc -
where
the bot comb doesn't work great and he can only tolerate so much fussing at
one time. The local wisdom is that you worm for bots after the first
killing frost. We wormed with ivermectrin at that time - and have the
horses
on Strongid C now.
So the question is - are those remaining eggs still viable such that I
should try to get them off? Our area has very few bots, so I am motivated
to try to remove all reservoirs of infestation - in addition to the health
motivation for this horse. My vet did not know if these eggs are likely to
hatch when it gets warm again.
TIA
Gail
Jean Gayle wrote:
Have you wormed for bots? Chewing is often a sign of worms migrating.
For
chronic wood chewers I put a block of wood in that I choose for them.
Gail Russell
Forestville CA
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