Biosecurity Queensland has quarantined a property near Gladstone, Queensland, Australia, after a deceased horse tested positive for hendra virus infection late Friday (July 18).
Nine veterinary graduates of 2014 committed to careers in equine health care received $4,000 scholarships from Zoetis and the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) Foundation.
Colorado animal health officials have confirmed the state’s first reported equine case of West Nile virus (WNV) for 2014 in an Adams County horse.
A Boulder County premises is under quarantine after equine vesicular stomatitis (VS) was confirmed there, and a number of other premises in the surrounding area are being investigated.
Exotic pets might carry foreign vector-borne disease agents that can be deadly to horses, particularly in several recently identified “hot spots” of entry into the European Union, French researchers say.
Dr. Julia Wilson received an award recognizing her veterinary team’s volunteer work to improve the health of working horses in Honduras.
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Specialists will teach participants how to maximize the use and productivity of their pastures while improving horse and environmental health.
Conception rates were 47% higher in mares consuming forage continuously over 23 hours compared to those consuming the same amount of forage over 17 hours a day.
Monitoring progesterone levels, which fall at the end of gestation, in association with the classical criteria for estimating foaling time, provides a practical way to predict the night of foaling and accurately time labor induction.
Five horses that ran in recent race meetings and under the care of various trainers have tested positive for morphine in their ‘A’ samples.
Tennessee law enforcement authorities are hoping the public can help identify whoever cut a horse’s leg while it grazed in its Washington County pasture.
Colorado became the second state in the country to confirm vesicular stomatitis when four horses on two Weld County premises tested positive for the disease.
Fly grazing is the practice of leaving a horse to graze on a piece of private or public land without the permission of the owner or local authorities.
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