Latest News – The Horse
Neurectomy for Navicular
While untenable pain due to navicular syndrome and caudal heel syndrome is the most common cause of performance horses’ being nerved, Madison said in Thoroughbred racehorses a wing fracture of the coffin bone often necessitates a neurectomy.
Manure Management
Every barn manager and anyone who keeps his or her horses at home knows that disposing of manure and soiled bedding is a mounting problem. If allowed to accumulate, raw manure serves as a vector for parasites and other organisms, attracts flies,
Monitoring Fetal Well-Being
Fetal monitoring in horses is similar to the methods used for humans — ultrasound, EKG machines, and blood tests on unborns all are part of monitoring the health of the fetus. Advances in these areas for equines have allowed for
Parasite Update
In the past, the world of equine parasitology was not concerned about small strongyles, also known as cyathostomes. However, veterinarians and horse owners were much more wary of the large strongyles, and in particular Strongylus vulgaris
Genetics Primer
Progress in the field of genetics has been moving by leaps and bounds during the past few years. It wasn’t long ago that researchers discovered ways to unravel and study DNA, that elusive strand of genes that inhabits each and
Tendon Injuries Part 3: Suspensory Desmitis
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When the Bone Breaks
Fracture repair is a field that has grown by leaps and bounds in the last 20 years, and new research is improving the prognosis for horses every day. The best part is that these injuries, which once were death sentences for a horse, now are routinely repaired, saving careers and lives.
Exercise Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhage
The debate goes on. That brief statement is about the most accurate way to open a discussion on exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH) in horses. The condition has been a concern for 300 years and, during that time, has been addressed,
Equine Herpes Virus
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Homeopathy
Homeopathy is the modality most difficult to describe in this series on alternative forms of medical treatment for horses. For one thing, even its most ardent advocates and learned practitioners don’t know exactly how it works. For another, ther
Focus on Discipline: Harness Racing
The horse and buggy era might have ended, but Standardbreds continue to bring pleasure to millions of spectators and horsemen.
Dropped Hip/Hunter’s Bump
Can you please tell me what the terms hunter’s bump and a dropped hip refer to, and how they are different?
AHC Convention 1997
Welfare. Regulation. Legislation. Disease prevention. These are the issues facing horse owners at all levels, and these are the issues that the American Horse Council tackled at its annual convention. These items not only affect horse owners on
If A Horse Dies on the Highway, Does Anyone Hear?
Fall is upon us, and soon it will be winter. Fall marks a dying time, when trees lose their leaves…and horses lose their lives. It’s tough for some people to feed their horses through another winter. Some older animals
Shopping for the Barn
Stocking your barn involves a variety of purchases, beginning Day 1 and continuing over the years. Besides the obvious furnishings of feeding and watering accessories, your interior can include such items as stall gates, saddle and bridle racks,
Equine Tendon Lacerations: Part 2
Electric fence wire, barbed wire, sheet metal…What do these things have in common? They all have caused catastrophic tendon injuries in horses.
