I nternal parasites continue to be a significant threat to the health of horses.
Internal parasites are small organisms that live a portion of their life cycle in a host animal.
They live in internal organs, body cavities, and tissues and gain their nutritive source by feeding on the host animal. The horse is affected by many different species of parasites. The nature and extent of damage varies with the parasite. Parasite infestation causes loss of nutrients or blood from the host and serious economical and medical problems in managing horses. While it is obviously expensive to feed parasite burdened horses, depletion of nutrients and blood can cause severe loss of condition, decrease growth, and reduce reproductive and athletic performance.