Merck Animal Health Launches Newsletter
The Horse Staff
February 7, 2012
NextVet features practical professional and lifestyle advice, information, and tips from practicing vets.
NextVet features practical professional and lifestyle advice, information, and tips from practicing vets.
NextVet, the student version of the popular equine veterinary newsletter Partners in Practice, will mail with the March and October 2012 issues of The Horse: Your Guide To Equine Health Care exclusively to equine veterinary students.
The Rooker Award for Excellence in Equine Practice was presented to namesake James A. Rooker, dVM, on Jan. 27.
A physical therapy program is owner- and horse-intensive in terms of time and energy for successful outcomes.
“Equine Eve,” the ancestral mother of all modern horses, probably lived about 140,000 years ago.
The test will screen for five potentially fatal genetic diseases often found in Quarter Horses.
The animals–two 9-year-old Quarter Horse mares named Finally Got Zipped and Blaze–were used in lessons.
The schedule includes three owner seminars, a breeding clinic, and three pedigree and conformation clinics.
A portion of purchases from qualified equine products made between Feb. 1 and April 30, 2012, will be donated.
The overall seroprevalence was 68% on all farms tested, with levels on individual farms ranging from 14-100%.
Using the a newly developed serologic L. intracellularis assay, a research team found the overall seroprevalence of the bacteria was 68%, with seroprevalence levels on individual farms ranging from 14-100%.
The models allow students to practice a variety of medical procedures before working on a live horse.
The bill, H.R. 7, contains language prohibiting the hauling of horses in double-deck trailers.
The location of the fracture in the humerus impacted racing performance but had no effect on return to racing.
Upcoming topics include moon blindness, headshaking syndrome, metabolic disease, and ocular cancer.
According to the pollsters, 80% of all those surveyed disapproved of horse processing, while 13% approved.
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