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Equine Herpes Virus
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Homeopathy
Homeopathy is the modality most difficult to describe in this series on alternative forms of medical treatment for horses. For one thing, even its most ardent advocates and learned practitioners don’t know exactly how it works. For another, ther
Focus on Discipline: Harness Racing
The horse and buggy era might have ended, but Standardbreds continue to bring pleasure to millions of spectators and horsemen.
Dropped Hip/Hunter’s Bump
Can you please tell me what the terms hunter’s bump and a dropped hip refer to, and how they are different?
AHC Convention 1997
Welfare. Regulation. Legislation. Disease prevention. These are the issues facing horse owners at all levels, and these are the issues that the American Horse Council tackled at its annual convention. These items not only affect horse owners on
If A Horse Dies on the Highway, Does Anyone Hear?
Fall is upon us, and soon it will be winter. Fall marks a dying time, when trees lose their leaves…and horses lose their lives. It’s tough for some people to feed their horses through another winter. Some older animals
Shopping for the Barn
Stocking your barn involves a variety of purchases, beginning Day 1 and continuing over the years. Besides the obvious furnishings of feeding and watering accessories, your interior can include such items as stall gates, saddle and bridle racks,
Equine Tendon Lacerations: Part 2
Electric fence wire, barbed wire, sheet metal…What do these things have in common? They all have caused catastrophic tendon injuries in horses.
Fluids and Electrolytes: Life’s Curious Brew
Encouraging water consumption is extremely important. This often starts by making sure your horses have free access to a good, clean water source.
Hay, Look Me Over
Performing a hay analysis whenever you get a shipment of hay is an excellent management routine, especially since the results can have a significant impact on the grains and supplements you choose to feed.
Feeding Fat for Energy and Performance
If there was a nutritional buzzword that was started in the ’90s, it was fat. We fitness-conscious (and frequently overweight) North Americans still might not fully understand the differences between good cholesterol and bad cholesterol”P>If there was a nutritional buzzw
Tendinitis
Tendinitis is a troublesome disorder for many owners and trainers of highly competitive horses. In fact, some horsemen feel injury to the tendons and ligaments threatens an equine athlete’s career more than fractures. The bowed”P ali
No Sweat: Anhidrosis
Heat builds up rapidly in the body of an exercising horse and must be quickly dissipated if thermal injury is to be prevented. For the normal horse, this is not all that much of a problem. Like man, the horse cools its body by sweating, and this
Magnetic Therapy
Horses are electrically charged. So are people. Sound a bit bizarre? Because of this electrical presence, the use of magnets has been a part of the therapeutical approach to treatment of injuries and other maladies since the 18th century.
Bandaging Basics
A common question among horse owners and veterinary students is: When is it appropriate to bandage a leg or wound and, if it is, what is the best material with which to bandage it? There is an ever-growing variety of commercial bandaging materia
