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Filly Helped by “Equine Walker” Recovering Nicely
An “equine walker” that was designed and built in 24 hours by a caring veterinarian and a skilled blacksmith has successfully assisted a severely malnourished filly to recovery. The filly is walking on her own and recovering remarkably, says Roger Murphy, DVM, of Lexington Ky.
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Churchill Downs is taking precautionary measures at its Trackside training facility in Louisville, Ky., after a Thoroughbred racehorse was diagnosed with strangles, a contagious bacterial disease. Rumors began circulating the weekend of Owners calling about horses with painful eyes or eye trauma should be told to have a dark examination area available, and to have four bales of shavings or hay ready to use as a head rest for standing surgery/diagnostics. Prominent Thoroughbred stallion Kingmambo, who was taken out of stallion duty in late February at William S. Farish’s Lane’s End Farm near Versailles, Ky., because of an injured leg, will spend about three more weeks on the sidelines due to an A crowd of more than 200 fans and friends of John Henry gathered Wednesday afternoon to wish the five-time Eclipse Award winner a happy 30th birthday at the Kentucky Horse Park near Lexington. Vibrations of the soft palate are the probable source of expiratory sounds recorded in horses with dorsal displacement of the soft palate (DDSP), says Jeremy Burn, BEng, PhD, lecturer in equine science in the department of anatomy at the Sometimes a horse has a reaction following a vaccination. The local and whole body reaction to a number of the equine immunization products is a well-known side effect of these necessary shots. Some horses demonstrate signs of systemic illness, such as depression, inappetence, and fever. ReRun, Inc., the national non-profit Thoroughbred adoption group, has announced its recent incorporation in New Jersey. Originally founded in 1999 in Kentucky by Lori Neagle and Shon Wylie, ReRun has placed over 300 Thoroughbreds in adoptive homes–both for riding and for use as companion horses. Laurie Lane, also with ReRun since its inception and adoption coordinator, is now ReRun’s Ashutosh Verma, BVSc, MVSc, graduate research assistant in the laboratory of John Timoney, BSc, MVB, MRCVS, MS, PhD, DSc, Keeneland Association Chair in Equine Science, at the University of Kentucky’s Gluck Equine Research Center in Lexington, recently presented his leptospiral equine recurrent uveitis (ERU, or moon blindness) research. Verma has identified leptospiral proteins that actually A proposal to create breeders’ incentive funds and a modification of the tax on yearlings and 2-year-olds was slated for passage March 8 as part Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s tax modernization and budget package. The House and Senate left the horse industry benefits intact when they each passed the measure. The incentives then survived a conference committee meeting that lasted until The following statement was posted on the “Whisper Syndrome” message board yesterday (https://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/whisper_syndrome/). It was made by Thach Winslow, DVM, the veterinarian who treated horses on a farm in Shawsville, Va., one of which died of a yet to be determined illness. The horse’s His registered name was “I Two Step Too,” but to thousands of people who fell in love with him, he became known as “Seabiscuit,” after the movie in which he starred. I Two Step Too was euthanatized today at the Kentucky Horse Park after battling a rare type of tumor for several months.
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The 9th Edition of The Merck Veterinary Manual has just been released. It is the collaborative work of more than 350 contributors and features 35 new chapters, 30 new tables, and more than 400 new pages of material, including new coverage of ophthalmic emergencies and equine emergency medicine. This edition includes a section on West Nile virus, which was not present in the A flurry of interest arose this week on an Internet message board started by individuals who think their sick horses’ fatal diseases are linked. As a result, veterinarians are cautioning horse owners not to jump to conclusions in diagnosing their own animals or linking past cases with the alleged disease, because at this time, no disease claims have been substantiated. Since March 2, “Our perennial topic this morning is West Nile virus (WNV),” began Rocky Bigbie, DVM, MS, director of field veterinary services with Fort Dodge Animal Health, at the 2005 Western Veterinary Conference held Feb. 20-24 in Las Vegas, Nev. He also focused on myriad hot topics in equine veterinary medicine, discussing WNV vaccination guidelines, influenza vaccination challenge, vaccine care and The American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) made the welfare of unwanted horses in the United States a priority for the foreseeable future, according to AAEP leaders during the annual convention. While the AAEP’s stand against the national bill that bans slaughter of horses has been seen as a negative by many horse owners, the AAEP is not pro-slaughter, but pro-horse, said |
