EFEC Nutrition

16/02/2025

Have you heard of a faecal egg count reduction test? 🧐

This test is used to help identify resistance and if your worming treatment has been successful for redworm and roundworm. It is recommended to use this test 10-14 days post treatment following a positive faecal egg count or treatment in the winter for encysted small redworm.

You need to make sure to include the batch code from the bottom of the wormer box when returning your sample to avail of this product.

https://www.efecnutrition.com/product-page/faecal-egg-count-reduction-test

31/01/2025

And we are back 💡

After 7 days of no electric I’m very glad to see the lab lit up again! Sample that have been received over the past few days will be processed over the weekend and orders sent out 🔬

26/01/2025

Unfortunately we still have no electric and therefore no way to process samples or orders ☔️

All current orders will be processed once we get back online ☺️

13/01/2025

Looking forward to delivering this webinar 🪱 I will be looking into ways you can help manage your grassland and new guidelines on parasite management

Join us for a Webinar on “Equine Worming Programs: Effective Strategies for Healthy Horses” with Ashley Robinson, RAMA (SQP), Equine Lecturer at CAFRE Enniskillen on Wednesday 5 February 2025 7pm to 8.30pm
This webinar will provide a comprehensive look at modern approaches to equine parasite control, focusing on sustainable working practices, resistance management, and the latest scientific insights to ensure horse health.
This evening will be of great benefit to horse owners, stable managers, equestrian professionals and equine veterinarians and will count as 1 CPD point for BHS Accredited Professional Coaches.
This evening is Free of Charge.
Click here to book your place
https://buytickets.at/bhsireland/1526900

07/01/2025

🐑 As we welcome our first set of Valais blacknose twins in 2025 I thought I would share an interesting parasite fact about sheep during pregnancy.

Adult ewes will go through a stage of relaxation in immunity around the time of lambing. This means that the parasite egg output from these ewes will also increase.

This occurs around 2-4 weeks before lambing and can last from 6-8 weeks. This period of high egg shedding can be a risk to these pregnant ewes and in particular, the young lambs. 🪱

06/01/2025

It’s been a busy snowy afternoon at EFEC HQ with our first Valais ewe giving us two beautiful ram lambs 🐑

01/01/2025

New Year Offer ✨

To help start off 2025 we are offering a special discount on the EFEC year bundles.
Make your parasite control programme easy with a free reminder service and qualified advice tailored to suit your individual yard/ equine. 🔬

🪱 Receive a year worth of kits
🪱 Reminder service on when and what testing is best advised
🪱 Qualified and tailored advice to suit your yard/ equine
🪱 RAMA/SQP qualified advice and anthelmintic prescriptions

Two year bundles available:
1) FEC Bundle - x4 Faecal egg counts (Was £35.00, Now £32.00)
2) FEC & Equisal - x4 Faecal egg counts & x2 Equisal Kits (£75.00, Now £72.00)

Limited time only.

27/12/2024

🪱 Encysted Small Redworm- What is it and how do I protect my horse?

The encysted stage of the small Redworm (cyathostomins).
As temperatures consistently drop below 6 degrees Celsius, L3 of the small Redworm lifecycle will become Encysted by burrowing into the gut wall of the large intestine.
In this state they lay dormant and can remain Encysted for months or years. When conditions are optimal such as the change of seasons, they will mass emerge at once from the gut wall. This can lead to mild symptoms such as weight loss to life threatening conditions including bowel inflammation known as larval cyathostominosis

So how can you protect your horse? 🧐
We can perform a risk assessment to identify what level of risk your horse is at - www.whatsyourwormrisk.com
🩸If your horse is classified as a low risk, they are eligible for Encysted small Redworm blood tests (contact your vet for more information)
💉Medium to high risk animals should be proactively treated with Moxidectin or Fendendazole chemicals

Now’s the time to consider your action against Encysted small Redworm,
Contact me directly for more information

24/12/2024

🎄 Merry Christmas Everyone 🎄

Thank you to everyone that has supported my small business making it our busiest year of testing yet 🔬

Have a wonderful Christmas with all your wonderful horses, ponies and donkeys

21/12/2024

📮 Take note of you are planning to send Equisal samples

Please don’t send your samples now until the new year 🎄🎉

Royal Mail will be holding them at the local depot until we return on 2nd January

18/12/2024

🪱 Winter Parasite Control

It’s time to consider encysted small redworm risk in our horses.
You can check your horses parasite risk level through www.whatsyourwormrisk.com

So what are the options? 🧐

🩸Horses at low risk of parasite infection are recommended to get the blood test for encysted small redworm completed by your vet and sent off to Austin Davis Biologist
💉 Horses at a moderate and high risk of infection are recommended to be treated with a Moxidectin or Fenbendazole product.

For more information get in touch via messenger r or email.

19/11/2024

Management and monitoring tools are essential for good equine parasite control 🪱

We ultimately want to reduce the risk of wormer resistance developing and make sure our horses are at optimal health 🩺

To help equine owners understand their horses risk of parasite infection a handy calculator tool has been developed by the team at Austin Davis Biologics Ltd

https://www.whatsyourwormrisk.com

14/11/2024

🪱 New Regulations 🐴

Due to changes in the Veterinary Medicines Regulations there is some additional information required to be recorded before a suitable anthelmintic can be advised.

Don’t worry though to help make this process easy, once initial results have been sent we will share a link to an online form for you to complete so we can gather all the information needed. 📱

01/11/2024

🍂 It’s not too late to complete your autumn parasite control🪱

It is recommended to complete a worm egg count and Equisal tapeworm test now.

Treating for encysted small redworm is recommend to be done after the first frost ❄️ Due to our changing climate this rule doesn’t necessarily apply, instead we need to wait until temperatures are below 6 degrees Celsius for over 10 days consistently.

Don’t forget there is now an encysted small redworm blood test for horses at low risk. Send a message to find out more information that suits your horses.

22/10/2024

🪱 It’s really important we look at how we currently view management of our horses and consider ways we can change to help improve health and welfare

New guidelines on equine worm control have been launched – with the warning: “If horse owners don’t make these changes now, it will be too late.” Cross-sector group CANTER (Controlling Antiparasitic resistance in Equines Responsibly), has published a “crucial” document setting out key pr...

15/10/2024

Are you from ROI and looking to purchase EquiSal Tapeworm tests? 🤔

Unfortunately we can’t supply EquiSal tests to customers in ROI but the Irish Equine Centre are official stockists.

Autumn is tapeworm testing time for horses - the IEC has EquiSal kits in stock