Equest Plus Tape Horse Wormer 11.8gm Single Tube

Zoetis Equest Plus Tape - Long Acting Horse Wormer & Boticide Gel

Key Features:

• Low dose volume.
• Lasts up to twice as long as other wormers, reducing labour and product costs.
• Palatable liquefying gel formulation means lower risk of wastage and consequent under-dosing.
• Equest® Plus Tape long acting horse wormer and boticide gel is the only horse wormer effective as a single dose against encysted stages of small strongyles: developing stages (DL), late encysted stages (LL3/EL4), and aids in control of early encysted stages (EL3) including inhibited larvae (greater than 90% effective).

 Description:

• Equest® Plus Tape contains moxidectin and praziquantel, sufficient to treat a horse of up to 575 kg.
• Controls tapeworm, bots and gastrointestinal roundworms including adult and encysted stages and benzimidazole resistant strains of small strongyles.
• Long acting: The Egg Reappearance Period (ERP) for Equest® Plus Tape is at least 14 weeks, which means that re-contamination of the pasture by strongyle eggs is significantly reduced during this period.
• Unique gel formulation that dissolves rapidly on the tongue, aiding compliance.
• A dial-up syringe is designed with a narrow barrel to allow easy access into the side of the horse’s mouth to deliver the right dose every time.

Recommendations for use:

Equest® Plus Tape is palatable and effective for the treatment and control of:

• Tapeworm: Anoplocephala perfoliata, Anoplocephala magna and Paranoplocephala mamillana.
• Large Strongyles: Strongylus vulgaris (adults, L3 and L4 arterial stages), Strongylus edentatus (adults and L4 visceral larval stages), Strongylus equinus (adults), Triodontophorus spp. (adults) including T. brevicauda,
• T. serratus and T. tenuicollis, Craterostomum acuticaudatum (adults).
• Small Strongyles (adults): Cyathostomum spp. including C. catinatum and C. pateratum; Cylicostephanus spp. including C. calicatus, C. goldi; C. longibursatus and C. minutus, Cylicocyclus spp. including C. brevicapsulatus,
• C. elongatus, C. insigne, C. leptostomum, C. nassatus, C. radiatus, C. ashworthi and C. ultrajectinus; Cylicodontophorus bicoronatus; Coronocyclus spp. including C. coronatus, C. labiatus and C. labratus; Gyalocephalus capitatus; Parapoteriostomum mettami; Peterovinema poculatus; Poteriostomum imparidentatum, as well as benzimidazole resistant strains.
• Pinworms: Oxyurus equi (adults and L3/L4 larval stages). Ascarids: Parascaris equorum (adults and intestinal stages (L4)). Hairworms: Trichostrongylus axei (adults).
• Intestinal Threadworms: Strongyloides westeri.
• Large Mouthed Stomach Worms: Habronema spp. – gastric and cutaneous (summer sore) forms. Stomach Bots: Gasterophilus intestinalis (2 & 3 stage larvae), Gasterophilus nasalis (2 & 3 stage larvae). Cutaneous Onchocerciasis: Onchocerca spp. (microfiliariae).

Dosage:

• Equest® Plus Tape is administered orally at a dose rate of 0.4 mg/kg moxidectin and 2.5 mg/kg praziquantel.
• It is supplied in a ready to use syringe, calibrated according to the body weight of the horse to be treated, in intervals of 25 kg body weight.
• The following table will act as a guide only:

	Pony		Light Horse		Medium Horse
Age	Weight (kg)	Doses/Syringe	Weight (kg)	Doses/Syringe	Weight (kg)	Doses/Syringe
3 months	60	9	125	4	155-170	3
6 months	95	6	185	3	230-265	2
Mature	200	2	400	1	500-575	1

Storage: Store below 30°C (room temperature).

Human Safety

Safety directions

• Harmful if swallowed. Will irritate eyes and skin. Avoid contact with eyes and skin. If product in eyes, wash it out immediately with water. Wash hands after use. Additional information is in the Material Safety Data Sheet.

First Aid Statement

• If poisoning occurs, contact a doctor or Poisons Information Centre. Phone Australia 131126.

Registered label warnings

Withholding Periods

MEAT WITHHOLDING PERIOD (HORSES):

• DO NOT USE less than 28 days before slaughter for human consumption

Additional Information

• DO NOT ADMINISTER THE FULL SYRINGE TO HORSES UNDER 400 KG [500KG].
• USE WITH CAUTION IN FOALS AND SMALLER BREEDS BY CAREFULLY.
• CALIBRATING THE DOSE AND AVOID OVERDOSING.
• KEEP AWAY FROM DOGS: Excessive consumption of spilt material may cause toxicity.

When used as directed, EQUEST PLUS TAPE LONG ACTING HORSE WORMER AND BOTICIDE GEL is safe in foals over 4 weeks of age and in all breeding stock, including stallions and pregnant mares.