Dr. Mary Rose Paradis discusses options and methods for feeding orphan foals. Learn about inducing lactation in barren mares, using milk substitutes, feeding orphans with milk from other species, and more.
How can I check on a foal to make sure he’s thriving without being in danger with the protective mare?
Although early VOD diagnosis is critical, diagnosis could be confounded by nonspecific signs of the disease.
Yearly variability in exposure to a severe disease-causing bacterium of young horses appears to be different than previously thought.
Supporting broodmares’ overall and nutritional health during lactation is especially crucial.
Dysphagic foals require immediate, specialized care to ensure they begin life without a nutritional deficit.
Dr. Stephen Reed recaps studies on endocrinology, neurologic and muscle disorders, foal health, and more.
Rhodococcus equi is well known for its ability to cause severe pneumonia in young foals, but it can also cause septic arthritis (infection of joints), osteomyelitis (infection of bones), neonatal diarrhea (enterocolitis), and more.
Your mare is in labor and your foal is on his way. But what if something goes wrong? Offer your baby a great start by listening to this live audio event covering foaling, dystocia (difficult birth), passive transfer of immunity, and neonate health.
Miniature Horses are more susceptible to some health problems than their larger counterparts.
More than 10,000 individuals have already signed up to take part in the course on horse nutrition.
Researchers found that high-energy forage diets provided adequate nutrition for young horses in training.
What sort of behavior problems would an orphan foal develop?
Dr. Nathan Slovis of Haygard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington, Ky., discusses clinical signs and treatment of equine proliferative enteropathy, an intestinal disease that primarily affects foals.
Consider the following “wishes” equine experts made to help maximize your horses’ quality of life.
English researchers have taken a step forward in understanding a potential genetic component of OC.
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