Monitoring and Preventing Equine Proliferative Enteropathy
Stacey Oke, DVM, MSc
June 14, 2011
Prevention and monitoring strategies for equine proliferative enteropathy, a disease that affects weanlings
Prevention and monitoring strategies for equine proliferative enteropathy, a disease that affects weanlings
Equine proliferative enteropathy, a gastrointestinal disease of foals and weanlings that’s increasing in
How you manage, feed, and care for your young horse can affect his future performance.
Nothing disrupts the joy of foal ownership like the observation of potential problems: A disinterest in nursing, a depressed attitude, strange mannerisms, or seizures could mean a foal is suffering from some serious neurologic problems. During a
There’s nothing more heart-wrenching than watching a newborn foal fight for his life.
Gastric ulcers can affect horses of all breeds, ages, shapes, and sizes, including weanlings.
The immune system allows humans and animals including horses to survive in a complex world filled with harmful bacteria and viruses that can use our bodies for nourishment and reproduce within us. The immune system protects us from those organisms
A nursing foal’s nutritional requirements will exceed his dam’s ability to supply nutrients a few months after birth, making creep feeding a good way to get the young horse off on the right hoof.
The fairly new concept of e-verification for immigration workers was one of the topics at a March 8 forum hosted by Blue Grass Farms Charities in conjunction with attorneys from Wyatt, Tarrant and Combs in Lexington, Ky. About 40 Thoroughbred
It isn’t for lack of effort that the equine industry still doesn’t have new options for treating Rhodococcus equi pneumonia in foals.
Although about 30% of foals that develop Rhodococcus equi foal pneumonia do not survive, the majority of foals can be treated successfully and proceed with a normal life. But why is it that only foals are affected by this respiratory disease?
Carbohydrates are important energy sources for horses, and they are required for digestive health.
The horse’s large intestine absorbs large volumes of fluid from the bowel. When a situation interferes with fluid absorption from the large colon, fluid passes quickly from the body to increase the water content of the feces, resulting in diarrhea.
One of the major foal diseases in the United States is Rhodococcus equi foal pneumonia. Responsible for the deaths of up to 30% of infected foals, it is a serious problem at many large breeding farms.
Update on Rhodococcus equi pneumonia in foals by Drs. Noah Cohen of Texas A&M University, Steeve Giguere of the University of Georgia, and M. Julia B. Felippe of Cornell University. (Presented at the 2010 AAEP convention)
For years foal owners have struggled with controlling the bacterium Rhodococcus equi and the infections it causes—some farms manage cases annually, despite following strict farm management strategies to reduce risk of infection.
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