“The worms have turned!”

Control of worms in horses has become increasingly difficult in recent years – mainly due to the rapidly increasing resistance in small redworms and tapeworms (the most important types of worms that affect horses in the UK) to the deworming drugs (also known as anthelmintics and “wormers”) that we use to control them.

A recent survey of horse owners in the UK indicated that around 40% of horses in the UK are not kept on the owners’ property - i.e. kept at livery yards. Individual livery and competition training yards often appear to have very different strategies to control worms. It is important that we understand more about how horses are managed and how parasites are controlled on these yards so that we can implement effective, bespoke worming programs to both maximise horse health and prevent further emergence of resistance. The aim of this survey is to find out what yards are currently doing with respect to controlling redworms and tapeworms.

We would be extremely grateful if you could take part in this survey, which should take approximately 15-20 minutes to complete. By completing this questionnaire, you are giving us consent to use your responses. All data will only ever be reported in a collated anonymous fashion and no individual responses will be identifiable.

Before you complete the survey, please ensure you have read the participant information document which you can find here

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* 1. Do you own/manage a livery or competition training yard in the UK?

For the purposes of this survey we are defining a livery yard as a property where horse owners pay a fee to keep their horses. The yard must have two or more horses belonging to different owners who pay to keep their horses at the yard. This must include grazing land and may, or may not, include stabling for the horses

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