poor growth, weight loss with distended belly, decreased food efficiency, colic, diarrhea, pneumonia

insects, adult is fly, larvae live in stomach, eggs laid on hair, enter through mouth tissue, cause stomach irritation and colic

technical term for dewormers, administered via gastric tube or orally

blood worm, causes thromboembolic colic, larvae can cause blood clots

eggs laid around anus, cause irritation and tail rubbing

used against adult strongyles, roundworms, pinworms
small strongyles are resistant

encrusts on gut wall, maturation w/o immune response, infected by pasture, most prevalent

infects young foals, larvae passed from mare milk, causes diarrhea, immune by 5 months

used against roundworms, strongyles, & adult pinworms, small strongyles are resistant

host specific, horses up to 2yrs, adults immune, travel through lungs, build up in intestines, cause colic or rupture, visible in manure

donkey parasite, passed from donkey to horse, ingested in stomach travel to lungs

against roundworms(less effective), strongyles, bots, and pinworms, can kill encrusted small strongyle larvae, careful with young/small horses

cestodes, develop as mite on forage, 1/2-30in long, can cause colic

Habronema, live in stomach, do little damage, largest threat is "summer sores", painful and difficult to heal

only known against tapeworms