North Carolina law enforcement authorities hope the public can help find whoever is responsible for shooting and killing a horse while it grazed in its Wake County pasture.
The crowdfunding project, which ended on March 10, is possibly the first such effort in the veterinary science field.
Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease. Here’s how to keep your equine athlete happy, healthy, and at the top of his game.
H. Graham Motion and Bruce “Buck” Davidson Jr. will speak April 21 at 6 p.m. in the Ag Science Building’s Seay Auditorium on the University of Kentucky campus.
Since March 7 at least eight horses have presented with acute neurologic disease. Of these, six horses have tested positive for the EHV-1 virus.
The Connecticut Supreme Court skirted the issue of whether horses are by nature a vicious species, ruling instead that horse owners and keepers have “a duty to take reasonable steps to prevent injuries.”
The Research Report 2013 focuses on the UK Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center faculty’s research accomplishments and scientific publications during the 2013 calendar year.
How can a horse purchaser check out elements of a horse’s character at the purchase exam?
Debbie Anderson co-founded an equine-assisted learning facility that connects horses with kids, adults, and veterans for educational purposes and life skills development.
Despite intense research, scientists still have not been able to uncover anything reassuring about pastern vasculitis–no common cause, no successful treatments, and no positive prognoses.
Horses competing in the $1 million race will be subject to out-of-competition blood testing for banned substances, and be required to be on grounds by April 2 while under 24-hour monitoring at their trainers’ barns and stalls at Aqueduct.
The concentration will encompass expanded courses on equine law, racing regulations, and gaming industry law, which will be added to a preexisting business concentration.
Want to test your equine knowledge? Send a team to compete in the Pony Club Invitational Quiz Challenge.
According to a March University of Kentucky Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (UKVDL) bulletin, the lab is seeing a statistically significant increase in positive Lawsonia intracellularis test results as compared to recent years.
Research teams from the University of Kentucky Gluck Equine Research Center and George Mason University have defined a new advanced statistical model to evaluate anthelmintic dewormer efficacy.
Researchers found that oral supplementation of glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate, and MSM did not improve stiff gaits in one senior horse population.
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