Italian and Australian researchers investigated the relationship between transportation, gastric pH, and gastric ulcers. The team was surprised by some of the results.
Many adopters of BLM Mustangs relayed they had a “strong, trusting bond” with their horses, and the animals fulfilled their expectations.
Does your horse’s drinking water have high iron levels? If so, he might be at risk for chronic illness or even death, researchers found.
High-carb diets can put weanlings at risk for developmental orthopedic diseases. Could these horses get by on high-forage, low-concentrate diets?
Researchers identified upper respiratory tract disorders, many of which aren’t common in other horse types, in 92% of the competition draft horses they examined.
While there was no significant difference in outcome between patients treated conservatively compared to surgically, the overall prognosis for long pastern bone damage in sport horses remains guarded, researchers said.
Most modifications made to the traditional distal limb compression bandage did not appear to improve their efficacy, researchers found.
Researchers found that high-field MRI provided highly detailed and anatomically accurate images of equine stifle soft tissues.
Researchers had hypothesized that haylage would produce a lower insulin response than hay, as the sugar in haylage is partially fermented and could result in a less-pronounced insulin response.
Researchers found that 58% of responding hospitals said they consult a nutritional adviser about feeding their patients and 21% reportedly feed all patients the same type of feed.
Researchers identified “major misperceptions in how supplements are tested before being launched for sale” among surveyed Irish equestrians.
Researchers identified a link between glucose and insulin concentrations (measured using an oral glucose test) and risk and onset of laminitis.
Researchers know diet, breed, high colonic pH levels, and water supply mineral content can impact enterolith formation, but how trace minerals affect the process is less well-understood.
Older horses tended to have higher insulin secretory responses to glucose compared to adult horses, researchers found.
Donkeys’ hair coats hardly change across the seasons, meaning they aren’t as well-equipped to deal with cold weather as horses.
Compared to a control diet, Spirulina supplementation led to significant weight loss and reduced fasting insulin levels, researchers found.
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