A donkey and mule expert offers tips for veterinarians on how they can best approach, handle, and read their nonhorse equid patients.
Study: Worry wrinkles, known to show pain in horses, are also present during stressful events.
Researchers found the choice of steroid used for sacroiliac joint injections predicted outcomes better than whether the horse underwent a preprocedure ultrasound.
Researchers found sound horses’ movement didn’t change when traveling on straight, flat surfaces after undergoing foot nerve blocks.
Researchers found treating all horses on a farm four or six times a year with moxidectin or ivermectin makes worms develop anthelmintic resistance two to three times faster than other recommended programs.
Domestication is relatively new to horses, which is why two Italian researchers are urging competitive riders to allow their horses to engage in natural behaviors.
Vesicular stomatitis primarily affects horses, cows, and pigs, causing fever, drooling, and blisters on the mouth, lips, nose, coronary bands, and teats.
While each horse is different, here are some common behavioral signs that can help you tell if your horse is happy, sick, or painful, as well as keep you safe.
Standardized helmet tests measure the equipment’s reaction to hitting a steel anvil, but equestrians usually fall on softer, less rigid surfaces.
Researchers found individual horses can have such widely different vertebral columns, they don’t even have the same number of vertebrae.
A survey found most veterinarians who specialize in horses and primarily deal with lameness issues use nonsteroidal intra-articular joint therapies in their patients.
Study: A broodmare’s fertility appears to decrease slowly over the years, on a downhill slope that follows her number of breeding years, and not just her age.
We’ve compiled a science-based list of nonriding activities to help keep you and your horse busy during these cold winter months.
To better understand the piaffe and its effects on a horse’s biomechanics, researchers investigate the ground reaction forces of elite dressage horses performing the movement over pressure plates.
An Italian researcher outlines the stresses high-performance horses face during transport and what horse owners and managers can do to help.
Researchers found horses on regular four- to six-week trim and shoe cycles didn’t have significant gait changes after their hoof care appointments, even on a finely measured level.
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