Understanding potential problems during your mare’s pregnancy and after the foal’s birth could be the best way to protect them.
Both Drs. Doug Antczak and Walter Zent grew up riding horses, joined the polo team as Cornell University undergraduates, and dedicated their careers to the field of equine reproduction.
Genetic differences in immune function could explain why some horses develop sarcoids and others don’t, researchers say.
Equine stem cells confined inside tiny capsules secrete substances that help heal simulated wounds in cell cultures.
Researchers will use samples from horses with fevers of unknown origin to look for tick-borne infections.
When Sophy Jesty was 20 years old and an animal science major at Cornell, she met N. Sydney Moise, DVM, MS, Dipl ACVIM (internal medicine, cardiology), now professor of medicine and chief of the section of cardiology at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine.
Mira, a foal born Aug. 4, runs happily in Binghamton, N.Y., even though her mother died almost a year ago from a ruptured intestine. Her birth was made possible through a team at Cornell that might be among the first to successfully extract and ship eggs from a dead mare for remote fertilization and implantation.
Strict hygiene guidelines should be followed whenever handling breeding mares or stallions to prevent reproductive infectious diseases, including contagious equine metritis (CEM).
CEM is spread between horses primarily by breeding, either b
Sometimes a small change can make a big difference. Such is the case with equine herpesvirus, according to researchers with Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine. When it comes to the virus, a change in just one amino acid can make
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