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Transporting: Room To Breathe
Transporting horses for long distances can be a contributing factor in the development of respiratory disease, which can last long after the trip is over. Although horse owners cannot control all elements, keeping in mind these few guidelines will
How To Find A Vet On The Road
What is the best way to find a veterinarian when we are away from home with our horses?
Foreign Travel Tips
Travel can broaden your horizons, but crossing international borders can stress horses and owners. The process becomes complex with travel on land, sea, or air. Required quarantines, longer distances, and tests for import and export
Equestrian Discipline: Pure Pleasure
His job is fun. The pleasure horse doesn’t work hard or fast, like competitors in jumping, reining, or racing. But when he treks up the trail or circles the show ring, he’s supplying his rider with an essential ingredient–the feel of a good horse.
Should You Insure?
How much can you afford to lose? That’s the crux of any insurance question and it’s no exception for those who transport their horses to shows tracks breeding facilities sales barns living history festivals vacation areas parks and so
Avoiding Travel Fatigue
Although most horses seem to tolerate travel it is a stress to some degree to all horses. Horses lose body weight and run the risk of respiratory disease during travel. Because of the risks no matter how seasoned the showman moving horses
Avoiding Hauling Emergencies
At first blush, a discussion of trailer safety and emergencies seems quite uncomplicated and straightforward. However, it really isn’t all that simple because there are so many facets involved in traveling down the highways and byways
Hoof Care Emergencies on the Road
As with most problems, hoof care crises are best handled by those who are prepared. If you are going to a show or competition find out ahead of time which veterinarian and farrier are available to take care of your horse.
Transporting Horses
Moving horses from place to place is recorded to occur as far back in history as 3,500 years. At that time, horses were transported by sea and either were confined in boxes to the bowels of the boat or placed in slings on the deck of the boat.
Trailering Your Horse: The Movable Feast
Alas not only are horses dedicated herbivores but the average horse trailer doesn’t fit that easily into a fast-food drive-thru. Other solutions must be sought. If you travel with your horse in tow whether it’s to the local Sunday morning gymkhana
Do Genetics Affect Racing Performance?
We know some Thoroughbreds are faster than others. But why? Some are back at the knee. Some are sounder than others. Some are more susceptible to infectious diseases than others. But why?
These, and countless other questions, were
CEM Found In Kentucky Nurse Mare
The nurse mare (Miss VQ) which was leased to a Thoroughbred farm in Kentucky and found culture positive for the CEM-like organism, has implicated two non-registered stallions (Hammer and Coal Digger) as the potential source of her infection
Holistic Symposium Report 1998
The second annual Equine Holistic Symposium was held at the Kentucky Horse Park on March 21-22. Attendees from as far away as France assembled on the first day of spring to listen to a series of speakers whose presentations centered around the
Equine Research Funding
Keeping in stride with the longstanding commitment for the improvement and protection of the nation’s equine health, the American Horse Council is educating Congress on the importance of increased funding for agriculture
NAERIC Awards Research Grants
More than $38,000 in research grants, awarded by the North American Equine Ranching Information Council (NAERIC), are helping the equine industry progress into the 21st century.
“NAERIC is
