[HairOfTheDog]

A fine tale.... but what is interesting about that is that in my experience, horses will eat tobacco willingly. A trainer I knew would empty a cigarette into her palm and the horse would eat it and think it was a treat. She said it was a worm preventative too.... I think it was a novelty.

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my grandad had similar experiences with broken cigarettes but found that cheap cigars did the trick,,,he used that method for 3 1/2 decades in the Wichita Falls Tx area.

[Judith Anne]

I used to feed a menthol cigarette each day (sans filter) to my horses. My experience agrees with yours, although I used Ivormec for worming. Horses like tobacco.

[ShakeNJake]

Tobacco as a worming remedy is an old-time cure. Many of the old racehorse trainers used this method.

[Mamzelle]

tobacco as wormer--

I've heard this one from several sources as well. It may have had some effectiveness back when commercial wormers were not available.

If you are at all into antiques--sometimes you'll find plugs of tobacco in trunks and drawers of very old furniture. This was to discourage insects--and it was somewhat effective if you didn't have anything better. It's not surprising that it might function as a purge for horses...

But given their delicate digestive systems, I'd stick with commercial...!