No one in Kentucky knows exactly how many horses or farms make up what is now the state’s number one agricultural industry, but the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, in partnership with some of the state’s equine leaders, hopes to change
With the use of cooled shipped semen on the rise, breeders want to maximize the effects of this new technology as best they can. However, there are a variety of factors that can affect fertility with cooled semen, said Dickson Varner, DVM, MS,
The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) recently announced that West Nile virus (WNV) has been confirmed in a 14-year-old horse in Island County. The horse, which became ill early in October, is recovering. It is the first horse
There has been an unusual rise in cases of pigeon fever detected in Colorado and Wyoming, according to recent reports from Colorado State University (CSU) and the Wyoming State Veterinary Lab.
Seventy-six cases from Colorado’s Front Rang
Clostridia-associated enterocolitis (inflammation of the small intestine and colon) affects both humans and horses, young and old alike. According to Nathan Slovis, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, of Hagyard-Davidson-McGee (HDM) Associates veterinary clinic i
In October 2002, a meeting of the Interagency Working Group for domestic animal genome sequencing was convened at the USDA Whitten Building in Washington, D.C. to discuss prioritization of domestic animal species for DNA genome sequencing. That
According to an Associated Press report, an 89-year-old deer hunter has been charged with shooting a horse while it was being ridden by a 12-year-old girl near Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 9.
The hunter, Clinton Hulbut, thought he had seen a
Colorado State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is conducting the Fifth Annual Cutting Stallion Auction from now until Jan. 15, 2003. All proceeds will benefit two important equine programs at the university:
A retrospective study at the University of Pennsylvania showed a possible pattern of resistance to antibiotics by the isolates. During the five-year study period, 1,604 horses underwent ?clean? elective surgical procedures. Of those, 23 (1.43%)
Despite rescuers? desperate efforts, the second of two horses trapped after their barn was engulfed in a sinkhole died Nov. 15. According an Associated Press report, the sinkhole in Sanford, Fla. was 50 feet wide and 30 feet deep.
The
The American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) has produced 21 client education brochures with the help of Bayer. The brochures are available to veterinarians and come in packages of 25, at $5.50 a package for member veterinarians and
Upon receiving an urgent request for fly control products from the 360th Civil Affairs Brigade stationed in Kabul, Farnam Companies–a leading supplier of fly control for horses–answered the call to duty. The Army compound was struggling with a
An unusual outbreak of the bacterial disease ?pigeon fever,? also known as dryland distemper, has been occurring in Kentucky over the past three weeks, according to Doug Byars, DVM, a specialist in internal medicine and equine critical care. He
A retrospective study at the University of Pennsylvania showed a possible pattern of resistance to antibiotics by the isolates. During the five-year study period, 1,604 horses underwent “clean” elective surgical procedures. Of those, 23 (1.43%) had postoperative wound infections, and Actinobacillus species were isolated from 10 of the 23 (43%). Seven horses survived and three were
Endometrial cysts occur in up to 22% of all mares and up to 55% of older mares.
The former home of Magical Mac, a horse who lived to be 50 and had his own book, was hit by one of the recent tornadoes which struck the Midwest and South on Nov. 10.
Michele Davis owns Serendipity Stables near West Mansfield, Ohio. The
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