Latest News – The Horse

Consider cancer as a possibility in older horses with long-bone fractures and no history of trauma, encouraged a group of veterinarians from Oklahoma State University’s Center for Veterinary Health Sciences.

Cancer is relatively rare in horses, and intestinal cancers are even more unusual. Because intestinal adenocarcinomas are especially rare, they are not often considered as

A horse has tested positive for rabies post-mortem in Colorado, according to the Colorado Department of Agriculture. It is the second equine rabies case within a year in the state, after 25 years without a report of a horse developing rabies.

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Iowa State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine is introducing a series of free seminars for horse owners this year. They will be held on the first Tuesday of the month once a quarter at the Ames, Iowa, school.

“We are offering the opportunity for our local clients to come and spend an evening with us and get some of their questions answered,” said Dr. Bruce C

For the second year, a nationwide series of more than 160 gastroscopy events showed 60% of horses were identified with stomach ulcers, according to a press release from Merial.

“This is the second year that these scopings were able to show horse owners the type of potentially painful stomach ulcers that their horses have been dealing with,” said April Knudson, DVM, manager of Merial Veterina

The Racing Medication and Testing Consortium has lowered the testing threshold level for phenylbutazone (“Bute”), a commonly used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), but has kept the administration time at 24 hours prior to a race.

An as-yet unidentified illness has killed two horses and sickened 10 others in Bahrain, reports the Gulf Daily News. Authorities began investigating the situation April 15, and blood tests have been sent to a specialized laboratory in the United Arab Emirates.

Because it had not yet been determined whether the illness is viral or bacterial or how it spreads, horse and stabl

Ash and gases emitted since Wednesday’s eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland could pose breathing risks to anyone exposed, including horses, according to a European veterinarian whose work centers around equine respiratory disease.