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<blockquote data-quote="Fire Sweep Ranch" data-source="post: 1383004" data-attributes="member: 18809"><p>Funny you say that. When I was a kid, we showed Paints. All of our horses were kept in box stalls and 24 x 24 pipe corrals, so dry lots. My best mare had to be wormed every 12 weeks, because she had strongyles often. We know this because we did a fecal count on her several times a year. She never saw a blade of grass in her life when we showed her (but we did buy as a yearling off pasture), her diet was strictly managed. But our vet at that time said they eat off the ground, picking around their fecal material, and re infest. He told us unless we pick up every plop when it hits the ground, reinfestation was inevitable.</p><p>A funny story.... my mom accidently wormed her a few days before a show (right after we bought her, we were new). While at the show, she lifted her tail (while my trainer was getting ready to take her into her halter class) and pooped. It was LOADED with the strongyles (looked like a pile of spaghetti in her manure). My trainer was so embarrassed, she quickly moved the mare away (so no one would know the mare she was holding is the one who left the pile)... then looked back over to the pile and started telling her juniors that a horse that left that pile should be easy to spot; thin, coarse hair, and unthrifty looking (using it as a learning experience). My mare was none of those, you would have never guessed she was full of worms! :lol:</p><p>By the way, I owned that mare for 29 years, and those were the best 29 years of my life! She is now buried in my favorite pasture, under a big walnut tree, and we call the pasture "Silly's pasture". Her name was Silly, and her end years were spent happily in a pasture, eating grass, just like the first 9 months of her life before we bought her. She was the best animal I have ever owned, period!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fire Sweep Ranch, post: 1383004, member: 18809"] Funny you say that. When I was a kid, we showed Paints. All of our horses were kept in box stalls and 24 x 24 pipe corrals, so dry lots. My best mare had to be wormed every 12 weeks, because she had strongyles often. We know this because we did a fecal count on her several times a year. She never saw a blade of grass in her life when we showed her (but we did buy as a yearling off pasture), her diet was strictly managed. But our vet at that time said they eat off the ground, picking around their fecal material, and re infest. He told us unless we pick up every plop when it hits the ground, reinfestation was inevitable. A funny story.... my mom accidently wormed her a few days before a show (right after we bought her, we were new). While at the show, she lifted her tail (while my trainer was getting ready to take her into her halter class) and pooped. It was LOADED with the strongyles (looked like a pile of spaghetti in her manure). My trainer was so embarrassed, she quickly moved the mare away (so no one would know the mare she was holding is the one who left the pile)... then looked back over to the pile and started telling her juniors that a horse that left that pile should be easy to spot; thin, coarse hair, and unthrifty looking (using it as a learning experience). My mare was none of those, you would have never guessed she was full of worms! :lol: By the way, I owned that mare for 29 years, and those were the best 29 years of my life! She is now buried in my favorite pasture, under a big walnut tree, and we call the pasture "Silly's pasture". Her name was Silly, and her end years were spent happily in a pasture, eating grass, just like the first 9 months of her life before we bought her. She was the best animal I have ever owned, period! [/QUOTE]
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