Worm-Ed

21/10/2025

Such a feeling to be part of the Equine Veterinary industry in NZ! We had the best Equifest sharing science and supporting future vet students. Thanks so much to all of our clients that came to say Hi! Hope you enjoyed our trademark gummy worms 😅🪱
Lovely seeing some of our sponsored riders Brea Walker Eventing and The Equine Catalyst We received amazing feedback throughout the weekend on how well all your fussy horses are receiving the granule too. 🙏
I was representing the Equine branch of the NZVA in my role as secretary. Alongside the NZERF, NZEHA and Companion Amnimals NZ. It was a different experience with my two girls in tow this year ❤️ They soaked all the atmosphere up including the horse dissection demo from the New Zealand Equine Research Foundation 🤓

18/10/2025

As we prepare to hit the road home to Auckland we need to make sure our new friend "Fox" the Gypsy Cob is microchipped and registered with the NZ Companion Animal Register and NEIT (National Equine Identification & Traceability) ❤️ New Zealand Equine Health Association

16/10/2025

Getting set up at Equifest with my mini me. Come see us at site A23 where I'll have my equine vet hat on for the NZVA and helping the New Zealand Equine Research Foundation, New Zealand Equine Health Association and Companion Animals NZ at the Equine Health Hub. Keen to chat with you about worm management, our new granule wormer and our colleagues will be presenting a leg dissection demo for something different to 🪱
Dr Lizzie Thompson will be speaking teeth from Blue Mist Equine Veterinary and Dr Michelle Logan from Logan Equine will be giving excellent equine first aid tips

24/09/2025

Hot tip on cross grazing 👌💩
Remember 50% of your adult herd can potentially help here...super useful when you're in shared grazing with no access to sheep or cattle.

13/09/2025

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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 🌿