
How Can I Stop a Horse from Striking?
The horse strikes the ground, stall, water tank, and fence. I’m concerned he will hurt himself, destroy property, and influence my horses. What can be done to correct such rude behavior?

The horse strikes the ground, stall, water tank, and fence. I’m concerned he will hurt himself, destroy property, and influence my horses. What can be done to correct such rude behavior?

Three additional Texas horses were diagnosed with vesicular stomatitis this week, according to a statement from the Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC).

Butte County, California, public health officials are urging horse owners to vaccinate their equids against West Nile virus (WNV) now, if they have not already done so.
An official said the horses likely received thousands of stings; both animals were euthanized at the scene.

Researchers implanted embryos from ponies, saddle horses, and draft horses into surrogate mares of different sizes and observed significant differences in weight, height, and metabolic markers among the resulting genetic half-siblings
On June 17 the United State Equestrian Federation (USEF) issued a notice on the use of the drugs dexamethasone and methocarbamol.
For the first time in Europe, four foals were successfully born as the result of the transfer of genotyped and cryopreserved embryos.

The USA Equestrian Trust has awarded nearly $300,000 in grants to help fund more than a dozen projects by equine nonprofits.
Ohio law enforcement authorities are hoping the public can help identify whoever is responsible for shooting a horse while it grazed in its Butler County pasture.

The affected horse died at Tufts University’s School of Veterinary Medicine, in North Grafton, Massachusetts, after being transferred from the track.

Researchers recently determined that several factors–from the animal’s history to the owner’s training and management techniques–appear to make horses more or less likely to miss training days due to injury.
Thirteen horses are in foster care and 41 horses’ care is being monitored as part of an ongoing investigation in Sampson County, North Carolina.
Officials say cobalt, which is sometimes used to stimulate red blood cell production, is being detected in all breeds of racehorses.

The Escambia County, Florida, Mosquito Control Division is encouraging horse owners to vaccinate their horses against Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) in light of increased production of mosquito species that could carry and transmit the disease.

Of the 1,112 respondents, 514 (46%) said they haul and stack their own hay.

Scott Katzman, DVM, Dipl. ACVS, will serve as an assistant clinical professor of equine surgery.
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