Worming made easy!

[Shine]

My mare is a royal PITA Drama Queen when it comes to worming. I have to use 2 tubes of wormer - she'll raise her head up about 8 feet, twist her face around and smear whatever she doesn't spit out. So between the 2 tubes I'll get, maybe, enough to do a 700 pound horse (she's 1100). The DH's fat, spoiled, palomino who's a glass half-full type of gal (hey, you never know, it might be food!) is not so bad.

Then I found this: http://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.html?pgguid=1a3816d2-48a4-4913-a9be-f2f72d5cb347
I put the DQ on the cross-ties, put this on, do the wormer and putter around doing chores for 5 to 10 minutes (all the while getting the "horsey finger" look).:D Works like a charm - no wasted wormer and almost paid for itself the first time I used it. Also good for oral medications.

[clint]

I have a mare who is very difficult to worm, and I have thought about using this gadget, which has been around for decades. However, I have concern that my mare's solution to getting around this thingie would be to refuse bridling in the future. Has anyone had that problem as a result of using the drencher?

[ReSomething]

I've been using a different method that I read on here. I fill a dosing syringe with baby food applesauce and desensitize him using tasty stuff. He is slowly improving, we were able to Power Pak him and lived through the five days.

I'm contemplating doing the shot routine that way also - he is old and knows the drill and HATES it, two people coming at him, or one holding and the other approaching his neck and he starts with the fussing, moving away, head up/slinging stuff.

[GoForAGallop]

I have never bothered fighting with my horses over worming. (Except my good boy, who'll just stand there and swallow it like the man he is) I just squirt it onto some grain, dump in some molasses/applesauce/shredded carrots/other deliciousness, give it a good mix up with some hot water, and let them slurp it up.

Of course, this isn't practical for a large barn, but for mine it works great.

[Bluey]

Someone a while ago was posting about a new dewormer that horses really like in pellet form.
That is what I thought this thread was presenting.

Maybe you could use that?

[Quinn]

I have been using this bit worming gadget for years on Quinn and it works wonders. She has never refused to be bitted after. I swear by it.

http://community.webshots.com/user/ballyduff

[LLDM]

I have a mare who is very difficult to worm, and I have thought about using this gadget, which has been around for decades. However, I have concern that my mare's solution to getting around this thingie would be to refuse bridling in the future. Has anyone had that problem as a result of using the drencher?

No, in fact just the opposite! I had one mare who was horrible about worming (and even more about being tubed!). I finally broke down and bought this thing. It was fabulous! It took all the fighting right out of worming. So much so that I only had to use it a couple of times. After that we just wormed as usual!

I *think* the fight is less about how wormer tastes and more about them getting hit in the top of the mouth. That hurts and makes the whole issue escalate until it becomes self-fulfilling. This broke the cycle for me with a couple of horses.

So now it is the best piece of unused equipment I own! :lol: But it will always have a place in my medicine cabinet. But it doesn't do a *thing* for tubing! :no:;)

SCFarm

[Shine]

I have a mare who is very difficult to worm, and I have thought about using this gadget, which has been around for decades. However, I have concern that my mare's solution to getting around this thingie would be to refuse bridling in the future. Has anyone had that problem as a result of using the drencher?

I don't have any problems with the Pali or PITA bridling up and I've been using this for about a year. I did have a problem with my mare when I first got her a year and a half ago. Called the previous owner and she told me the mare does this all the time. She would just put her back out into the pasture rather than deal with the problem. This mare had terrible ground manners (hey, anyone have the number for the Parelli chick?:eek:) and she was a bully. Once she got called on her behavior, she would back off, which is why this works for me. I don't worm her in her stall or the cross-ties I use to brush and tack up.

Yes, she was free and I still payed to much for her:lol:, but she's a keeper and no, I really don't want Linda's number.

[Bigblackdraft]

Why does everyone want to give their horses worms?

Are you, perhaps, speaking of using dewormer to deworm them?

:winkgrin::winkgrin::winkgrin:

[Crooked Horse]

Why does everyone want to give their horses worms?

Are you, perhaps, speaking of using dewormer to deworm them?

:winkgrin::winkgrin::winkgrin:

Smiley or no, was that really necessary?

Tomayto tomahto...people have been saying wormer for years. My trainer has been in the biz for over 40 years and still says she wormed the horses. Who cares?

[naturalequus]

I fill the tubes with mollasses to desensitize them - I actually have to grab the tubes away before they crack them on me! Pretty quick they're grabbing at the tubes and - oops! - a tube actually filled with dewormer slips in! Then another of mollasses, and they are back to trying to grab the tubes out of my hand. I use the small narrow tubes to desensitize, so I am not using so much mollasses, though it only takes a time or two before they're good.

[clint]

I think the desensitizing works great, only I use tubes of applesauce with my young horses. That ship has sailed for this mare though, and I think I may get one of those deworming gadgets. Thanks for sharing.

[Shine]

Smiley or no, was that really necessary?

Tomayto tomahto...people have been saying wormer for years. My trainer has been in the biz for over 40 years and still says she wormed the horses. Who cares?

Well, I have been known to feed them "gummy worms" on occasion.:D

[Bigblackdraft]

Smiley or no, was that really necessary?

Tomayto tomahto...people have been saying wormer for years. My trainer has been in the biz for over 40 years and still says she wormed the horses. Who cares?

Probably not necessary, but I'd also point out to my ferrier that my quater horse's confirmation was really good for a cuttin horse.

:winkgrin::winkgrin::winkgrin:

[ReSomething]

I'm embarrassed to admit that I never opened the link and actually looked at the product, just A$$umed.
Since I finally did, it looks quite useful and I don't think that there would be any bridling issues - and you could squirt tasty stuff in there also if you had any real concerns.

[Ghazzu]

My horses are so accustomed to being dosed with applesauce by students learning how to give oral meds that they will grab a dose syringe and eat the blasted thing if one is not careful...

[deltawave]

I really think modern dewormers must just taste better, because I haven't had a horse strenuously object in ages. They can certainly be taught to cope, it just takes a little focused training.

[ZiggyStardust]

This gadget is used on multiple horses in my barn and I have not heard of any bridle problems occurring. Just second hand, though; thankfully I have never had major trouble giving paste (de)wormer to my own horses.

[mothermucker12]

i just put it on top of his grain, he eats it right up!