Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) causes rapidly progressive and severe respiratory failure and is associated with high mortality in affected patients.
A new study by French scientists suggests that allowing foals and their dams to wean at their own pace could be a more welfare-friendly breeding strategy than traditional methods.
What would be the best plan for handling a foal whose dam is being covered by a stallion?
Every year horse owners across the United States and Canada whose mares have lost foals or whose foals have been orphaned turn to Facebook to connect with one another.
One horse owner’s experience with her adult horse that was born prematurely.
One researcher describes what we know about the receiving mare’s effect on the foal in embryo transfer scenarios.
Vitamin E and selenium are often packaged and marketed together in supplements. Find out why from researcher Dr. Carrie Finno of the University of California, Davis.
Your horse might not be getting enough vitamin E and not show any obvious signs. Or, he could have severe disease. Dr. Carrie Finno explains.
With people staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic, more horse owners seem to be seeking nutrition advice online.
Newborn foals are easy targets for every kind of bacterium, virus, and other pathogenic organism. Here are some steps you can take to maximize your foal’s immunity from gestation to weaning.
Considering a switch? A nutritionist weighs the benefits and drawbacks of feeding horses pelleted hay.
How can you collect colostrum and save it for future use, and how long can you keep it? A veterinarian weighs in.
To help you better understand vaccines’ importance, how and why they protect horses, and the impact of wellness exams on horse health, we’ve compiled a list of 10 important resources available to horse owners free on TheHorse.com.
Find out if oats in your horse’s poop piles means his feed—and your money—are going right through him.
German researchers found foals can spontaneously correct their own overjets (parrot mouth) within a year. However, they also found that foals born without overjets can develop them within the first few months of life.
A nutritionist explains why horses need this amino acid in their diets and what happens if they don’t consume enough.
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