How the Horse’s Intestinal Microbiome Works
Stacey Oke, DVM, MSc
June 11, 2022
For any horse with appetite, appearance, or attitude issues, start by addressing the microbiome.
For any horse with appetite, appearance, or attitude issues, start by addressing the microbiome.
4 key factors contribute to a leaky gut: diet, environment, performance, and medications.
Younger age and lower body condition appear to protect horses against occasional spikes in nonstructural carbohydrate consumption.
Consider these nutritional factors when formulating your horse’s diet to avoid GI issues such as equine squamous gastric disease.
Employ nontraditional methods to discover more about pregnancies, pathology, and problematic anatomy, all using a transrectal probe.
How veterinarians can prep horses, prep themselves, and use their ultrasound machines to do more.
Practitioners have a new tool for assessing fetal growth/age in late gestation.
The readily available modality can reveal more information so veterinarians can make a definitive diagnosis.
Neonatal maladjustment syndrome is a diagnosis of exclusion that must be reached quickly to save the foal. Learn about commonsense approaches to nursing “dummy foals” back to health.
Milne lecturer urges veterinarians to understand the “why” of lameness before making a diagnosis.
Racetrack veterinarians can trust PET when looking for fetlock pathologies that can potentially lead to serious injuries if left undiagnosed.
One survey found 84% of veterinarians didn’t use PPE or wash their hands between equine dental patients. One researcher says biosecurity should be the expectation, not the exception. Find out why.
Here’s a look at how equine practitioners are managing during COVID and embracing the “new normal.”
With recent advances in equine dental care, veterinarians have a wide variety of treatment options available to manage equine dental abnormalities.
Vaccination and quarantine play key roles in controlling infectious respiratory pathogens such as equine influenza virus.
Researchers reviewed dental records from 428 tooth extractions. Here’s what they found.
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