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AAEP 2002: Kester News Hour
Probably the best-attended session of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) annual convention, the Kester News Hour provides brief reports of studies that were too new or too brief to be included in the longer scientific sessions. Larry Bramlage, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVS, the president-elect of the AAEP and a surgeon at the Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky., and
Ohio EHV-1 Update: Two More Deaths
Equine Herpesvirus type 1 has claimed the lives of two more horses in the outbreak at the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio, bringing the total number of fatalities to 12. The two horses had been down and in critical condition at The Ohio State University last week. University of Findlay officials sent the following update this afternoon (Feb. 3) on the situation.
Foot Work: Training for Hoof Care
My only horse finally lived out his days with me last fall. He died peacefully at the great old age of 32 years. He had been with me through thick and thin for 21 years, and was a sweetheart of a horse. He came to me completely broke and was always easy. His only issue was his hind feet–he just didn’t want anyone messing with them. Even for a trim we needed to tranquilize him, and it
Gimmick or Good Groceries?
The energy density in a performance horse’s diet traditionally has been increased by adding grains such as oats, barley, or corn. Another popular ingredient is sugar beet pulp, a by-product of the sugar beet industry.
Repro in the Rockies
The center of the Colorado State University (CSU) veterinary school’s equine reproductive universe is its 22,000-square-foot Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology Laboratory and a smaller satellite, the Equine Reproduction Laboratory. In these facilities, faculty members, graduate students, post-doctorate fellows, and visiting scientists from around the world work on a daily basis to unveil
Classic and Australian Stringhalt
It’s a disturbing and distressing sight: You’re backing your horse when one hind leg jerks forward and upward, nearly clipping his abdomen. It’s the same every time you back your horse–this strange movement where his leg snaps up toward his belly. There’s no mistaking it: Your horse has stringhalt.
A neurologic disorder, stringhalt is an involuntary, exaggerated flexion of the hock that
Owners On the Front Lines
With next month’s magazine, you will receive a special supplement that brings you the latest in horse health news from the annual convention of the American Association of Equine Practitioners. A record-breaking crowd of horse vets traveled to Orlando, Fla., to listen and learn, and to exchange information about a myriad of topics concerning the health and welfare of horses. One of the
Pasture Monitoring In Kentucky
A week following the Dec. 23 release of information about the University of Kentucky’s pasture monitoring related to mare reproductive loss syndrome (MRLS), Jimmy Henning, PhD, extension forage specialist at the University of Kentucky (UK) discussed some of the findings. There are some “real positive things” contained in the report, he said; the most important was that “we know a lot mor
West Nile Virus Gets Endemic Disease Status; Fees Will be Charged for Some WNV Testing
Government veterinary officials recently designated West Nile virus (WNV) as an endemic disease in the United States. The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Veterinary Services (VS) previously had considered WNV a Foreign Animal Disease (FAD), since it had never been detected in the United States prior to 1999. (Read more about WNV at www.TheHorse.com/wnv.) The
2002 American Association of Equine Practitioners Convention
Thousands of equine veterinarians visited Orlando, Fla., Dec. 4-8, 2002, with the health and welfare of their equine patients at heart. The annual convention of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) served up research presentations and current events appropriate for the equine practitioner seeking valuable continuing education, and also a day for horse owner education. Look
CEM Exemptions Rescinded for Spanish Purebred Horses
Officials from the USDA’s National Center for Import/Export recently rescinded a contagious equine metritis (CEM) exemption once given to Spanish purebred horses. The exemption allowed these horses to pass through the import center with an abbreviated form of CEM testing, an allowance that was revoked due to repeat violations of U.S. equine import requirements.
Contagious equine metritis
No Live Foal Guarantees
Subconsciously, you’ve been holding your breath for months. From the moment your mare was confirmed in foal, it’s been a tense waiting game. And although she will be foaling soon, you know a healthy foal is still anything but a given. Between breeding and her foaling date lurk a few dozen tragic ways in which she could lose her foal. Whether you call it “slipping a foal” or bluntly label it
The MRLS Mystery
MRLS touched us all, and some more than others; it broke not only the spirit, but the purse strings of many farms. We accumulated information on risk factors–from weather patterns, to host plants, to unusual insect populations, to time allowed expos
Federal Equine Research Funding
Fact–The horse industry has a $112.1-billion impact on the U.S. gross domestic product–more than the motion picture industry, railroad transportation, or tobacco products manufacturing industries, according to the
Resuscitating Foals
Cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation (CPCR, previously called CPR) is the restoration of spontaneous circulation (a heart beat) with the preservation of neurologic (brain) function. The most common and immediate problem requiring CPCR is an
Wanted: ETC Egg Masses
The University of Kentucky’s College of Agriculture is seeking Eastern tent caterpillar (ETC) egg masses from the Central Kentucky area. Egg masses that are viable will be partly or completely covered with a brownish coating and will not have obvious holes. They are found on twigs (about the diameter of a pencil or smaller) of cherry and other trees on twigs. There are pictures on the
