Check the product label of your favorite topical prior to applying to your show horse. Some topical therapy products contain illegal or banned substances and might result in a medication disqualification at your next show.
One listener asks how frequently an adult horse should have its teeth checked by a veterinarian. This podcast is from the Equine Life Stages: Adult Horses Q&A audio event.
Ernest Bailey, PhD, a geneticist at University of Kentucky’s Gluck Equine Research Center in Lexington, shares updated information about inheritance in horses.
Nancy Diehl, VMD, MS, will join The Horse‘s current behavior expert–certified applied animal behaviorist Sue McDonnell, PhD, Cert. AAB–in fielding audience and reader questions about equine behavior, training, and equitation science.
To date, 35 premises in nine Texas counties have been quarantined due to VS-positive horses and cattle.
Robert O’Neil, DVM, is a veterinarian with more than 35 years’ experience in the Thoroughbred industry.
U.S. Representative Ed Whitfield (R-Kentucky) is the primary sponsor of a measure that would ban the use of performance packages on Tennessee Walking Horses in training and competition.
Cross-training is a “central pillar” to athletic success and longevity, one veterinarian says. Learn why.
Ireland is working to take the guesswork out of the unwanted horse crisis: By compiling data dating back to 2005, researchers are establishing trends and seeing clearer numbers with regard to the country’s unwanted horse population.
One owner wants to know the cause of her mare’s tail “frazzle.” This podcast is from the Equine Life Stages: Adult Horses Q&A audio event.
The quarantines are located in Boulder, Broomfield, El Paso, Larimer, and Weld counties; results on additional tests in other counties are pending.
An Alabama man is facing 32 counts of animal cruelty after authorities removed 16 equids from his Lauderdale County property where another 16 horses were discovered dead.
The ASPCA has granted over $1.7 million to equine rescue groups assisting retired racehorses since launching its Rescuing Racers Initiative in 2010.
The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food strongly advises horse owners throughout the state to protect their animals by vaccinating them against West Nile virus (WNV) if they haven’t already done so.
Of the 332 horses that underwent the procedure, 228 (69%) went on to race post-surgery.
Practicing fecal egg count testing, selective deworming, and other management strategies to help ward off increasing parasite resistance to anthelmintics.
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