Take-Home Messages


• Perform fecal egg count reduction tests (FECRT) annually to ensure that you are using effective dewormers in every herd or barn.


• Recognize that no anthelmintic will eliminate all parasitic stages from a horse.


• Continue using fecal egg counts (FEC) once or twice a year to stratify horses into low, medium, and high shedders to reduce pasture contamination.


• Deworm all horses at a baseline rate (once or twice a year) and target selected horses more often based on FEC (strongyle high shedders).


• Do not use FEC to diagnose disease in horses; there is no correlation between FEC and disease-causing parasite life stages.


• Discontinue deworming all horses with fixed intervals year-round (e.g., every 2 months), and stop blindly rotating anthelmintic classes.


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