Latest News – The Horse
Good Hygiene Blocks Horse-Human MRSA Transmission
Equine veterinarians and public health officials are urging horse owners and others who come in frequent contact with horses to wash their hands and clean grooming tools after each use in order to reduce the risk of contracting an
Horse Owner Lecture Series Offered at VaTech Equine Medical Center
Virginia Tech’s Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center has announced the schedule for its 2007-08 “Tuesday Talks.” This series of lectures is designed to provide veterinarians, horse owners, and horse professionals with valuable insight and
Freezing Embryos
With breed registries admitting more than one foal per mare per year, the use of frozen embryos is becoming more mainstream.
The Business of Breeding
Breeding in the horse world breaks down into a few categories: field breeding (where the horses just do what comes naturally) live cover in a breeding shed, and artificial insemination. The tools of the trade range from very basic to high-tech
Focus on Lameness
See what veterinarians and owners learned during the AAEP’s late summer meeting on lameness.
Want to know what veterinarians talk about when they get together? This year it was
Breeding Challenges of Older Mares
New technology and better ways of handling older mares improve the chances for breeding success.
Understanding Horses Part 11: Diagnose the Problem Before Trying to Fix It
There are many people looking for answers for their horses’ problems. I’ve been talking to more and more people, and they all think they have different problems, but generally, horse problems boil down to one of four things: ground manners, under
All We Want for Christmas…
A Christmas list of goodies for your equine partner.
Peruse a horse owner’s holiday wish list, and it’s a pretty good bet that most of the longed-for gifts thereon are more horse- than
To Serve and Protect
While horses never cease to amaze me with their willingness to do pretty much anything we decide to do with them–run, jump, cut, rein, piaffe, pen, herd, pull, carry–police horses are a unique subset of this tremendous species. At the recent Nort
The Airways and Lungs
By the time a horse crosses the finish line in a five-furlong race, has completed a Grand Prix show jumping round, or gone one-sixth of the way round a 3-star cross-country course, he will have moved somewhere around 1,800 liters of air in and out of the lungs.
Anabolic Steroid Effects
A colleague, Larry Soma, VMD, is an anesthesiologist/pharmacologist who conducts research for the Thoroughbred and Standardbred horse racing commissions in Pennsylvania. Basically, his lab develops and validates testing methods for detection of
Antibody Titers
You might have heard your veterinarian say, “Let’s run a titer on him,” when referring to your horse and whether he’s protected against disease, or to figure out what might be causing particular clinical signs. What exactly does “titer” mean?
Stopping the Flow
I have a mare that is still lactating heavily months after weaning her foal. What is the cause of this?
Belching Horse
I have a 16-year-old Tennessee Walking Horse who appears to be in perfect condition, except he belches. Often.
Strangles Management and Prevention
New strategies for management and prevention.
It is not uncommon for strangles infections to recur on a farm, and until recent years there have been misconceptions about how this
