How to decide if your older mare is a good candidate for breeding and improve her chances of success. Read more in this article from the Winter 2023 issue of The Horse.
Nutritional evaluations take the guesswork out of whether your horse is consuming a balanced diet.
If your broodmare is overweight and/or has metabolic problems, her foal could be at risk. Here’s how you can keep both horses safe during pregnancy.
Are you thinking about breeding an older mare? There are steps—some simple, some cutting-edge—breeders can take to obtain foals from mares with waning fertility.
Proteins and the amino acids that form them play important roles in the horse’s body, from muscle building and function to neurotransmission and hormone synthesis.
How to ensure the late-gestation mare is getting enough nutrients to meet both her needs and those of the developing fetus.
These difficult-to-diagnose conditions can undermine a horse’s balance and coordination.
With much research surrounding how to feed “abnormal” horses, how can we feed “normal” horses to avoid disease? One expert weighs in.
Phytoestrogens in horse diets might have physiological effects on mares. An equine nutritionist explains how and why.
Are you planning to breed your mare? Taking a systematic, step-by-step approach to managing each mare, in partnership with your veterinary team, can help cultivate success.
They found that placentas in gestating mules might overcome species differences through a ‘compensatory mechanism.’
With proper treatment and rehabilitation, horses with neurologic conditions such as EPM and EHM can recover and live happy and healthy lives.
A research team found that abnormal behavior doesn’t always correlate with elevated ovarian hormones.
Learn about this highly contagious equine virus and how to curb its spread.
Knowing what to expect and when to call your veterinarian during pregnancy and foaling will help reduce the risk of complications.
The goal of this project is to develop a vaccine that will cross-protect horses against multiple types of equine herpesvirus.
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