A SENIOR vet told a court today horses found dead at a south Bucks farm could have died in “one of the largest recorded outbreaks” of a worm infestation.
John Parker, the former chairman of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, said the owner of Spindles Farm in Hyde Heath was “not aware of the gravity” of an infection affecting his livestock.
But he also told Bicester Magistrates’ Court he was unable to prove his theory as it was several months before the idea came to him.
Mr Parker said he believed the horses could have died from a condition called cyathostomiasis – an infestation of worms.