Weaning Ways
Connie Lechleitner
September 4, 2022
Here’s how to help your weanling foal transition to adulthood as smoothly as possible.
Here’s how to help your weanling foal transition to adulthood as smoothly as possible.
Horses at different life stages have a variety of immunization requirements, but they’re not as complicated as they might seem.
Eliminate the feces of R.-equi-infected foals on the farm, which reduces the bacteria the earthworms consume.
Learn about preventive methods and surgical options for treating an umbilical infection.
Rescue volunteers along with the staff at Bend Equine Medical Center spring to action to save an abandoned Mustang foal in Oregon.
Neonatal maladjustment syndrome is a diagnosis of exclusion that must be reached quickly to save the foal. Learn about commonsense approaches to nursing “dummy foals” back to health.
Some developmental disorders can be dangerous and performance-limiting if not treated promptly and properly.
Researchers: Understanding the impact of early exercise on growing horses could help prevent bone fractures in the future.
Two important bacteria cause lung infections in foals; here’s how the body and your vet battle these pathogens.
A 10-day-old foal in Switzerland became the world’s first horse to undergo successful balloon valvuloplasty to correct a faulty pulmonary artery valve.
Our nutritionist offers advice on feeding foals both before and after they’re weaned from their dams.
As you consider ways you can help your foal—and his dam—through the weaning process, examine proven methods based on research findings to formulate a plan.
Researchers compared foals born and raised in “traditional” breeding programs that included stabling with those in a free-roaming herd.
Give your new foal the best chance for a healthy start to life by understanding the red flags—and the green lights—of neonatal health.
Dr. Nathan Slovis covers new technologies in accurately diagnosing the causes of infectious diarrhea in foals.
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) causes rapidly progressive and severe respiratory failure and is associated with high mortality in affected patients.
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