Online Short Courses for Equine Business Professionals Begin Feb. 7
Short courses will focus on contract/employee labor law, farm safety practices, and more.
Short courses will focus on contract/employee labor law, farm safety practices, and more.
Two veterinarians, Mark Fitch, DVM, and Richard Tully, DVM, were named the 2012 recipients of the award.
Welfare officers have attended training to help them support owners through and following a horse’s death.

Authorities are encouraging horse owners to vaccinate annually to curb the impact of African horse sickness.

Tests confirmed a horse from a Gladstone farm contracted the neurologic form of equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1).

The organization awarded more than $1.8 million in grants to support equine welfare groups.
Officials are managing a hendra virus case near Mackay after a positive test result was received Jan. 22.
The gather was suspended Jan. 5 due to the filing of a temporary restraining order, which was lifted Jan. 11.

Council members will work to discourage overbreeding and to promote responsible horse ownership.
The course aims to help business owners create business plans tailored to the success of one’s operation.
Veterinarians will share their clinical and research expertise in seven presentations Feb. 22-23.

Hendra has not been detected before in that state; horse owners are urged to take precautionary measures.
Seeds from box elder trees were consistently present in the autumn pastures of all horses studied.
The video uses maps to help explain how equine influenza spread during the 2007 Australian outbreak.
Robin Fontenot, DVM, MS, will train students in large animal surgery through lectures and teaching labs.
Researchers are seeking horses for a study investigating resveratrol as a possible osteoarthritis treatment.
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