How Long Does it Take for Vaccines to Work?
Elizabeth Davis, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM
October 23, 2018
Find out how long it takes for a horse to be protected from disease after vaccination. Dr. Elizabeth Davis explains.
Find out how long it takes for a horse to be protected from disease after vaccination. Dr. Elizabeth Davis explains.
While dietary CLA didn’t appear to reduce inflammation in yearlings’ knees following induction, synovial fluid analysis showed signs of reduced cartilage degradation and improved cartilage regeneration compared to controls.
Researchers found that their technique for removing ostoechondral fragments from the hock was efficient and had few postoperative complications.
A Kentucky Thoroughbred farm is reaping the benefits of healthier mares and foals after making horse pasture renovations over the past year with guidance from University of Kentucky personnel.
Think botulism can’t happen to your horses? Think again. An owner describes her mare’s battle with the deadly disease.
Nutritionist Dr. Clair Thunes explains why ration-balancer protein contents might seem high but aren’t.
Learn more about these trace minerals that are vital to horse health.
Do all young horses with fluid-filled joints or lameness have osteochondritis dissecans (OCD)? Download this fact sheet to find out.
Recent study results suggest small but significant differences exist between how much foals slip and slide when standing and osteochondrosis incidence in Warmbloods.
Researchers have learned that foals and dams appear to prefer looking at each other with their left eyes and keeping each other in their left field of vision in most situations.
Changes in the diameter of the caudal vena cava (a large vein that returns blood to the heart from the back half of the body) during respiratory cycles could be used to evaluate fluid volume in foals, researchers found.
In horses bone development begins in the womb, but researchers are still working to understand the complexities of in utero bone growth.
Horses with Warmblood fragile foal syndrome have extremely fragile skin and abnormal joint laxity.
Foals from mares undernourished in late gestation had modified bone growth and slowed testicular development, while foals from overnourished mares had a higher osteochondrosis rate.
Is your parasite control program right for your horses? Find out and get your deworming questions answered!
Boudaher is studying Rhodococcus equi under the direction of Carrie L. Shaffer, PhD, assistant professor at the Gluck Center.
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