Are Hoof Boots Right for Your Horse?
A detailed guide on whether hoof boots are suitable for your horse, covering reasons for use, selection, fitting, maintenance, and potential issues.
What is an Equine Specialist?
Learn what a veterinary specialist does and when you might need to contact one.
5 Steps for Equine Weight Loss
Learn how to help your horse or pony shed his excess pounds safely.
Understanding Proud Flesh
Learn about the wound healing process and how to prevent and manage proud flesh.
Horse Hind-Limb Enigmas
Learn about the common causes of equine hind-limb lameness and how veterinarians diagnose and treat them.
Plant Structure, Pasture Sugars, and Safer Grazing Practices
Choose safer times of day and grasses for your horses’ turnout while safeguarding their feet from laminitis.
Hauling Horses in Hot Weather
Read about how to help your horse stay cool on the trailer this summer and what to do if he overheats.
Dose Your Horse Like a Pro
Read top tips and tricks for medicating your horse with everything from antibiotics and anti-inflammatory tablets to anti-ulcer pastes and deworming medications.
Diagnosing and Treating Splints
Splint bone injuries are common in both working and pastured horses. Here’s what you should know.
Help, My Horse Got Kicked!
Learn why horses get kicked, how veterinarians treat kick injuries, and tips on preventing them.
The Never-Ending Hoof Abscess
Why do some hoof abscesses heal quickly while others linger? Why do some keep coming back? Two horse hoof experts answer these questions and more.
Worms, Bugs, and Your Horse: 21st Century Parasite Control
Learn the latest on keeping internal and external equine parasites at bay.
Feeding Frequency in Horses: How Many Meals is Enough?
Horses evolved to eat frequent, small roughage meals throughout the day, so why do we only feed them twice?
Preventing Tendon Injury and Reinjury in Horses
Here are 10 ways to reduce your horse’s risk of sustaining tendon damage or injury.
What to Expect from an Equine Chiropractic Appointment
How to prepare for your horse’s chiropractic adjustment and what to do after it’s complete.
Advances in Equine Infectious Disease Detection
The diagnostic tests veterinarians use are evolving to improve how we manage infectious diseases in horses.