Faecal Egg Counts

What is the point of doing a Faecal Egg Count?

1. To determine if your horse even needs worming and what their worm burden is

2. To check the effectiveness of your wormer & worming program

3. Identify high shedders which may be contaminating pasture and treat accordingly

4. Decrease use of wormers and help lower costs

5. Help combat resistance to the current wormers available