Re: non-synthetic wormers
This message is from: Kathleen Spiegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAFreivald wrote: This message is from: SAFreivald [EMAIL PROTECTED] An old time harness racer that I knew fed his horses and ponies cigarette tobacco routinely. The horses loved it and he swore that it took care of any/all worms/intestinal parasites. Anybody have any specifics? Sue Freivald. The active ingredient is nicotine-it is also used an insecticide in gardens. Pretty hard to dose and by no means as safe as the commercial wormers-there you can have a 10x overdose and probably not do anything-here(using nicotine) an overdose can be fatal. Acute nicotine poisoning is a problem with children who get into ashtrays or cigarets. Kathy Spiegel Idaho State University
Re: non-synthetic wormers
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tobacco can be used as a pesticide. I know people that grind up chewing tobacco, mix it with water and spray it on their garden plants. I wouldn't count on it to kill intestinal parasites though. The amount of nicotine needed to kill these parasites would cause bad side affect with your horse. Steve White, DVM Sport Horse Vet. Service Gretna, NE A strange stillness dwells in the eye of the horse, a composure that appears to regard the world from a measured distance... It is a gaze from the depths of a dream... - Hans-Heinrich Isenbart
non-synthetic wormers
This message is from: SAFreivald [EMAIL PROTECTED] An old time harness racer that I knew fed his horses and ponies cigarette tobacco routinely. The horses loved it and he swore that it took care of any/all worms/intestinal parasites. Anybody have any specifics? Sue Freivald.
