Natural Horse World

13/06/2026

Great visual here for all those interested in what's going on inside the hoof. The takeaway: Keep those toes trimmed so you reduce lever forces that can cause mechanical separation of the laminae, leading to white line disease (seedy toe) and potentially, navicular disease.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1SrxrVmrx7/

10/06/2026

These are the true basics of natural horse care. 🙂

While hoof care is so important, you have to make sure that you are taking into account all the other aspects that goes into making a healthy hoof.

How many boxes have you got ticked?

All the things that are listed here are EQUALLY important!

03/06/2026

Encysted Worms: Should I Be Worried?
After my recent posts on worming and f***l egg counts, one question kept coming up:
“If f***l egg counts don’t detect encysted worms, how do I know if my horse has them — and should I treat for them?”
It’s a great question, and probably one of the most misunderstood areas of horse parasite management.
Let’s clear up some of the confusion. Read my latest post from the link in the comments.

31/05/2026

This is good to know coming out of dry times.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1bwgarq59N/?mibextid=wwXIfr

30/05/2026

Clever wiggle to scratch that itch! 😁

28/05/2026

This is why testing always pays off!

🚨 More than HALF the horses tested did NOT need worming…
…but 1 in 5 were high shedders 👀🪱🐴

After tracking and analysing over 1000 parasite samples across Tasmania, the results honestly shocked even ME 📊🧪

A total of 1057 samples have now been processed, including:
🐴 Horses & ponies
🫏 Donkeys & mules
🐑 Sheep
🐐 Goats
🐄 Cattle
🐓 Chickens

And from 920 horse samples specifically…

💊 557 horses (60.5%) did NOT require treatment at the time of testing using the common >200 epg treatment threshold.

More than HALF the horses tested potentially avoided unnecessary blanket worming 🤯

At the same time though…

⚠️ 187 horses (20.3%) — roughly 1 in 5 horses tested — were HIGH shedders (>500 epg)
⚠️ 34 horses (3.7%) recorded counts over 1000 epg
⚠️ The highest horse count recorded so far was over 2700 epg 😳

One of the clearest trends?

👶 Foals, weanlings and young horses consistently carried the highest parasite burdens.

Meanwhile many senior horses surprised me with consistently LOW counts 👏

And then came one of the most important findings of all…

⚠️ 5 FECRT cases showed the wormer may not have worked properly.

Those horses had BEEN wormed.

Without follow-up testing, they likely would have continued contaminating pasture while everyone assumed the treatment had worked.

The stats showed something honestly pretty confronting…

Some horses likely never needed worming in the first place.

Meanwhile other horses still carried HUGE parasite burdens — and in some cases may have continued shedding eggs onto pasture EVEN AFTER being wormed.

THAT is why evidence-based parasite monitoring matters.

FECs aren’t about worming less.

They’re about worming SMARTER.

27/05/2026

In my last post I talked about worming horses out of habit — and why that calendar-based approach is something we really need to move away from. I promised to follow up with the *how* — specifically, how you actually measure what’s going on with your horse’s worm burden. That’s where the F***l Egg Count (FEC) comes in.
If you haven’t heard of one before, don’t worry. By the end of this post, you’ll know exactly what it is, how it’s done, and how to get one — whether you want someone else to handle it or you’d like to give it a go yourself.
https://naturalhorseworld.com/how-to-take-f***l-egg-counts/