While many veterinarians use a clamp to accomplish hemostasis, a Swiss research team has uncovered significant benefits offered by a different castration and clamping method.
Before you load your horse into a trailer, you might wrap him head-to-toes to protect him. But the most important thing you can do to help him travel unscathed? Drive safely, researchers say.
Researchers found providing handfuls of forage to horses within hours after colic surgery improved gut healing.
Knowing the “location” of horses’ genetics—proximity to some, distance from others—on a “map” could help improve breeding programs and conservation efforts, researchers said. Here’s how.
Veterinarians used fetal ECG to detect two fetal heartbeats simultaneously in a mare suspected of carrying twins at eight months of gestation.
When breeders flock to the same few stallions in a certain breed, a genetic nightmare can result. Here’s how a PRE organization and researchers used science to improve genetic diversity.
Some horses with two copies of the gene associated with pacing don’t pace, so are they learning from their dams? Not necessarily, researchers have learned.
Researchers know that transport can affect horses’ immune systems, making them more susceptible to developing disease. But recent study results suggest it could also make horses more likely to spread disease.
Horses with equine asthma are more likely to have pharyngeal abnormalities in the upper airway during exercise than their asthma-free counterparts.
Digital and optical refractometers are simple, rapid, and cost-effective methods for assessing failure of passive transfer in foals with moderate to good accuracy, researchers found.
Researchers say the mutation responsible for the sometimes-fatal muscle condition immune-mediated myositis (or IMM) is just as common, if not more so, than at least two other well-known genetic diseases in Quarter Horses: HERDA and HYPP.
While a limited gene pool hasn’t put Japanese Thoroughbreds at risk of losing genetic diversity, selective breeding and low foal numbers have, researchers in that country say. Here’s why.
Colombian Paso Finos have a unique gait most other Paso Finos don’t: the trocha. And recent study results suggest that gait isn’t genetically similar to lateral gaits in other ambling breeds like Icelandics, Tennessee Walking Horses, and pacers.
Given the right conditions, equine embryos produced in a lab using ICSI can lead to pregnancy rates of approximately 70%, researchers say.
Veterinarians might soon be able to diagnose sarcoids in horses using a simple blood test rather than an invasive biopsy. Here’s what researchers are studying.
Australian researchers recently tested whether velagliflozin could help prevent laminitis in horses, and they say it’s showing promising results in early trials.
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