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Understanding Horses Part 7: Yielding to Pressure

I’m going to start discussing ground manners by talking about a 2-year-old colt from Arkansas who hadn’t been handled much. He wasn’t mean, he was just uneducated.

I use a rope halter to give me a little more leverage and “bite” if the horse

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Beyond the Surface: Imaging Referral Practices

He’s been poked and prodded, trotted in straight lines and flexed, hoof-tested and blocked, and yet there’s nothing standing out in these examinations or on his X rays that would explain your horse’s intermittent lameness. There are no obvious

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Slimming Down

Couple consistent exercise with controlled calorie intake to promote weight loss in overweight horses.

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Sort-of Pensions for U.S. Forestry Pack Animals

U.S. Forest Service pack animals that have outlived their usefulness in the backcountry are finding the good life in the pastures and back 40s of some north-central Montana ranches and hobby farms.


Horses and mules that once hauled

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Woodlands Hustling to Open Slots, Casino

The Woodlands dog- and horse-racing track in Kansas plans to open a temporary casino with as many as 800 slot machines by February, while building a $40 million to $50 million permanent casino and restaurant, its operators said this

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Lessons Learned, Again

Sometimes we need to hear the same things again in order to learn them. Or maybe it’s not the learning, but the applying what we’ve learned. I had to call Dr. Andy Anderson after reading his column this month and put his lessons into practice at

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Thirst for Knowledge

Horse people are always searching for new ways to learn about their passion: the horse. Perhaps it is because our relationship with the horse is just that–a passion–that we are continually looking for ways to expand our knowledge base. It can be

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Remember Rabies

There is no cure for rabies in man or animal, yet all mammals are susceptible. Since mid-June 2007, there have been reported cases of animal rabies in a number of states. To draw attention to the world-wide problem of rabies, the Centers for

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All Stocked Up

Stocking up is separate from—and should not be confused with—other veterinary conditions that result in edema (fluid swelling) of the lower limbs.

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Tapeworms

Tapeworms are becoming more of an issue in horses as we learn more about how they affect horse health. Some regions of the country have a greater risk of equine tapeworm problems. In the upper Midwest (Wisconsin and Minnesota), for instance, studie

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Two Plead Guilty In Horse Doping Case

Two Ballston Spa, N.Y., men accused of trying to fix races by injecting harness horses with substances designed to deaden pain or improve performance pleaded guilty today to felony charges.


District Attorney James Murphy says 68-year-old

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