Worm-Ed

23/08/2025

Our new moxidectin granule is available!
🪱 Perfect for fussy to worm horses
🪱 can be easily reconstituted to a gel for those that prefer to see it in the mouth!
🪱 reduces selection pressure for resistance to tapeworm
🪱 environmentally conscious product
Available for our Worm-Ed clients or as a prescription through your regular vet.

Jody Hartstone from The Equine Catalyst shows how the two options work here:

16/08/2025

Apologies to all our lovely clients for the delay in processing reports through your portals this week! Just when our new lab was up and running our software decided to take a break 💩😒
We are working through the weekend to get the system sorted. We have reached out manually to as many clients as possible and will hope to have this back on board tomorrow! Thanks to my amazing team for the extra hours ❤️🙏

08/08/2025

Very grateful to be invited to present at the CEVA roadshow in Cambridge and Christchurch, alongside Lee Morris from Equibreed ART and Finola McConaghy from CEVA Australia. Parasite Paranoia was my topic to discuss with vets in my role as the convenor of our National Equine Anthelmintic Resistance Action Group (for NZVA). Including some popular parasite myths that I will cover for you guys over the next little while 😊

30/07/2025

Why is my vet recommending I treat my horse for worms when they have a zero egg count? It's great that we are concerned about this as we never want to use chemicals unnecessarily. Here's a little explainer at to why...

13/07/2025

Thanks to everyone that braved the elements in Tauranga to come and hear the Why and How of worming along with Bex Tasker from Positively Together hosted by Vetpost. So much lovely feedback 🙏 Learning to live in harmony with "Good Worms" was the theme and how doing the right thing is so much better... not just for our horses but the environment they live in 🌿

09/06/2025

Apologies every one its been a hot minute between posts while we get our family organised for our property move. THIS WILL NOT INFLUENCE LABORATORY SAMPING so please do not panic and DO continue to use the same return courier bags to our laboratory. It has meant I have been stretched with admin commitments and have only just finished editing our recent webinar on Weanling Worm Management with Bex Tasker at Positively Together.
Thank you so much to all attendees this was well received, and we will look to do more in the future! We will be emailing out a link to this recording to everyone who attended and will add a link on our page next week. Please feel free to send through any questions that weren't answered on the night.
Bex and I will be performing another double act in person this time on 11 July in Tauranga. Watch this space for an announcement from our exciting host!

22/04/2025

Introducing our newest sponsored rider Samantha Jones. Sam and Paris (BBS van Gogh) have had a busy season. In December they competed at Puhinui in the 1.05 class gaining a fifth placing. In Jan, Sam sat her NZPCA, A Riding certificate and passed with flying colours. They were selected to represent Franklin Thames Valley Area at the National Pony Club Champs in both Dressage and Show Jumping. They finished with two individual (Level 2) 5th placings in the dressage and a second place in the SJ (1.10)
Next was the NI Pony Club Champs where they competed for the Waiau Pa Pony Club Team (1.05). The team came 5th overall and 2nd in the Sportsmanship Awards with an individual 2nd and 3rd placing for Sam and Paris.
Next was Kihikihi 1.05 with some very pleasing work but some pesky time faults keeping the combination out of the placings.
Sam and Paris are currently on their way to the NZPCA Eventing Champs Blenheim representing Franklin Thames Valley Area in the 1.05 class.
Good luck team 💚🖤🧡

11/04/2025

Faecal Friday with nature's little Massey Fergusons! How amazing are these dung beetles sent in by our client Pia Larsen 🙏 Our programme has special strategies to wrap support around these little guys. Reach out if you need advice on beetles 🪲 🖤💚

09/04/2025

BOTS 🪰 🫣 Lots of people have been asking about Bot larvae treatment and whether waiting for the first frost is necessary (its not) so I thought I'd let our friend Martin Nielsen share the facts. Martin is a globally renowned Equine Parasitologist and we regularly pick his brains with problems! He spent a sabbatical in NZ and his research during that time is worth a read too. You can skip to the end of this video if just interested in treatment. I love his quote "Do not let bots dictate your parasite control" bots are one of the least of our worries when it comes to parasite related disease but they are irritating! Let's not accelerate drench resistance by over treating for this parasite but instead employ some best practice strategies including environmental control and getting your neighbours involved 👌🖤💚

The Parasite Journey of the Horse, Episode 6: Bots

09/04/2025

Weanling Worming Wednesday.
If you're brave enough to zoom in you will see red AND white worms here. This is taken a day after deworming a warmblood weanling. These are both the adult and juvenile stages of Redworm (small strongyle/cyathostomin). Is this normal????!!!!!!🤔
We will be offering a webinar on
🪱 When to worm
AND
🪱 What to use
With a bonus of HOW to worm your babies safely with our mate Bex Tasker from Positively Together
Spoiler alert this p**p is a normal finding from a young filly!
Details of webinar to follow. Comment below if keen and we will send you details as we confirm dates 😊

04/04/2025

Software Saturday! Updates to our portal. You can now record the dates you give product which is helpful when we are all busy and get out of synch with reminders. Tips on how to record horse movements if they are sold, pass away or any other reason you no longer require reminders AND how to load profile pictures :)

25/03/2025

Welfare Wednesday 💚🖤
What an important topic! Last Friday I was interviewed by Sport Nation on the Rural Roundup Podcast. This was initiated by NZTR's Welfare team and I was so grateful that parasite management is being seriously considered a welfare concern. When we consider that 55% of horses clinically affected with redworm disease will die I think thats a major issue! This is why it's so important to use our dewormers sensibly to reduce the acceleration of resistance 👍🏼Read all about the 1% levy welfare initiative for NZ Thoroughbreds here:

“A thoroughbred should be provided a good life, with the care and conditions that will allow the horse to thrive and perform to its natural abilities."