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Following is the transcript of the Roundtable Discussion on Compounding for the Equine Veterinary Profession sponsored by Luitpold Animal Health and held in New York on Aug. 30. In attendance were Gary White, DVM (Luitpold Pharmaceuticals, who acted as moderator); C. Wayne McIlwraith, BVSc, PhD, FRCVS, Dipl. ACVS, ECVS (representing the American Association of Equine Practitioners); Richard

Setting the stage for a new era for equestrian sport, the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) Board of Directors gave final approval to a new National Governing Body (NGB) for the sport of equestrian.

The new organization, formed through the combination of USA Equestrian and the United States Equestrian Team (USET), is formally called the United States Equestrian Federation, Inc., and it

The operation to straighten the joint lasted six hours, including the hoof wall reshaping, and cast application. “We broke down all the bony callous, placed the lower limb back in alignment with her cannon bone, and plated it with a dynamic hip screw,” said Stewart.

Bill Gengler, DVM, Dipl. AVDC, has been named Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Director of the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (VMTH) at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, effective October 13th.

He brings a strong business background to the position, which helps him evaluate activities from a different perspective. Gengler was the founder of the Animal Hospital

Illinois horse owners polled in a statewide referendum on Oct. 7 approved an innovative new program that establishes an elective tax on horse feed products that will benefit equine research and education in the state.

Sponsored by the Horseman’s Council of Illinois (HCI), the referendum that would set the five-cent optional tax passed by a small margin. Proceeds from the taxatio

Steve Reed, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, a professor and head of equine medicine and surgery at The Ohio State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, recently was selected as the winner of the 2003 World Equine Veterinary Association Award for Applied Research, which is funded by a grant from Schering-Plough Animal Health Corporation.

According to an article in the Oct. 15

Horse owners everywhere cold-hose or ice their horses’ legs to help reduce inflammation, but there hasn’t been much agreement among researchers on its effects, or the success of various methods of cooling.

Don’t You  Come Near Me With That Hose!

Sunday afternoons mean a few extra hours to spend catching up. Today it was catching up with the weanlings’ training.

In Dr. McDonnell’s outline to 12-Weeks to a User-Friendly Junior Weanling, the first two weeks are called Gentle Start. So lets see how we are doing. “Reach full compliance with a minimum of 25

I spent this past weekend at the national Police Equestrian Competition (PEC). That’s the recognized national awards for mounted police officers in uniform, equitation, and obstacle course competitions. There were 96 officers and horses who came to the Kentucky Horse Park from as far away as Toronto, Canada, and New Orleans, La. This is what these babies should be when they grow up. Some of

According to an Oct. 15 news release, the Equine Protection Network (EPN) has begun a national horse slaughter awareness billboard campaign in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Indiana. The group also has launched a new web site, SaveAmericasHorses.com, giving EPN’s views on equine slaughter.

“Research polls show that most

A horse was struck by a truck and killed on the evening of Oct. 11 on Rt. 93 near Sugar Creek, Ohio, according to the Times Reporter of Dover-New Philadelphia, Ohio.

State troopers reported driver Tim L. Sigrist, 32, was northbound about 9:10 pm when the horse ran into the road and was hit, said the Times Reporter article. The horse flipped into the bed of the truck

A 19-year-old stallion was hit by a car near the village of Sydenham in Ontario, Canada, last week, according to an article in the Ottawa Citizen.

Early on Oct. 9, a woman hit the horse at 70 kilometers per hour (about 45 mph) as she was passing another vehicle in the morning fog.

Despite his injuries, the horse, Serenade, walked back to his home. His owner, farmer

In response to a threat several years ago that horses in England might not be allowed to use many currently available medications because of the potential of having unauthorized medications reach the human food chain through exported horsemeat, all owners of equids in England must have a passport for their animals. These passports will declare whether the animal is a potential human food

On Dec. 25, The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Mich., will open its IMAX^® Theatre to Walt Disney’s first dramatic feature created exclusively for the giant screen.

Young Black Stallion, the prequel to the 1979 classic The Black Stallion, takes audiences along on the adventures of a young girl named Neera, and the wild colt she meets in the

The dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of Kentucky told several Kentucky lawmakers the school’s Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center is overburdened and under-funded.

“Quite frankly, we are not the best equine diagnostic center and we should be,” Dean Scott Smith told members of the Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Horse

From Penn State University’s Dairy & Animal Science News

The wet weather this summer has not only increased the price of quality hay, but creates the right conditions for increased mold, fungi and mycotoxins in hay and grains. The cool, wet growing season has delayed the harvest of hay and grains and has also set up the right conditions for mold and mycotoxin to be found