Founded in 1968 by a veterinarian by the name of Pierre-Richard Dick, Virbac is dedicated exclusively to animal health, formulating a range of veterinary pharmaceuticals, vaccines and a wide range of pet care products for horses, dogs and cats.
Eraquell Palatable pellets are a palatable alternative to paste and liquid wormers in horses. These cereal-based pellets are a safe and effective way to worm hard-to-worm horses. Using a mectin-based ingredient, Ivermectin, these pellets provide broad-spectrum protection against internal equine worms including all three species of bots. For a full list of parasites covered, please see below.
- Worming pellets for horses
- Safe and effective against internal parasites
- Cereal-based pellets
- Safe to use in pregnant and lactating mares
Caution: Do not use in foals due to difficulty in accurately measuring a dose.
Directions for use: Dose at 5g per 100kg bodyweight. Tear open the sachet and pour the required amount into a feed bucket and offer to horse. Ensure consumption of the entire dose by becoming bridle before treatment and preventing spillage or dropping of pellets during feeding. Each sachet treats a horse up to 700kg.
Eraquell Palatable Pellets are effective in the treatment and control of common worms and bots including:
- Large strongyles (Strongylus vulgaris, Strongylus edentatus, Strongylus equinus and Triodontophorus spp.)
- Small strongyles including benzimidazole resistant strains (Cyathostomum spp., Cylicocyclus spp., Cylicostephanus spp., Cylicodontophorus spp., Gyalocephalus spp.)
- Pinworms (Oxyuris equi)
- Large roundworms (Ascards)
- Hairworms (Trichostrongylus axei)
- Lungworms (Dictyocaulus arnfieldi)
- Intestinal threadworms (Strongyloides westeri)
- All three species of bots (Gasterophilus spp.)
- Also controls skin lesions caused by Habronema and Draschia spp, and cutaneous larvae (summer sores) by Onchocerca spp.
- Does not treat tapeworm
