Is Rained-On Hay Any Good for Horses?
Equine Disease Quarterly
October 19, 2020
Learn about how rain during harvesting can affect hay quality and whether you should feed rained-on hay to your horses.
Learn about how rain during harvesting can affect hay quality and whether you should feed rained-on hay to your horses.
The positive test resulted in a voluntary quarantine of the horse’s premises.
This marks the state’s 14th positive equine WNV case for 2020.
Many training styles and riding mistakes can make a horse less responsive to cues, pressure, and even pain—and that’s often the early stages of learned helplessness. Learn how to identify and prevent this negative mental state.
If your horse survives one of these five infections, he might still suffer lasting effects. Learn which diseases most commonly cause post-infection illnesses and how they can impact a horse’s long-term health, use, and quality of life.
Though they make up only a tiny part of horses’ diets, micronutrients play big roles in major physiological functions, ranging from bone and muscle performance to digestion to hormone signaling.
Equine welfare researcher Dr. Natalie Waran addresses the importance of studying, measuring, and caring about our horses’ quality of life.
The Ontario horse is reported as recovering.
Kansas and Missouri remain the only states with VSV-quarantined premises.
Fatal cases have clustered in horses located in south central counties of Calhoun, Ionia, Jackson, Kent, Livingston, and Montcalm.
Horse owners are rightfully concerned about their horses’ lung health after wildfire smoke exposure. But can the smoke and ash also affect their pastures and forage?
Officials recommend vaccinating livestock after detecting Eastern equine encephalomyelitis in Atlantic County mosquitoes.
Kansas and Missouri are the only remaining states with VSV-quarantined premises.
An Oregon-based sports medicine practice offers advice for horse owners dealing with hazardous and unhealthy air quality.
Health departments in multiple Virginia and Maryland counties are tracing humans and horses that were potentially exposed.
Fire remains a threat to equine operations worldwide. Learn how to protect yours from barn and wildfires.
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