Diet’s Effect on Broodmare Lactation Described (AAEP 2012)
Stacey Oke, DVM, MSc
February 20, 2013
Supporting broodmares’ overall and nutritional health during lactation is especially crucial.
Supporting broodmares’ overall and nutritional health during lactation is especially crucial.
One veterinarian describes five factors that can negatively impact pregnancy and how to respond to them.
Experts report that the eastern tent caterpillar egg hatch will likely begin in mid-March in Central Kentucky.
APHIS took this action after reviewing probable causes of CEM outbreaks in the United States.
A 17-year-old Lusitano mare from California has been confirmed positive for contagious equine metritis.
Authorities have released all quarantine and hold orders related to a horse that tested positive for EHV-1.
Equine metabolic syndrome can put pregnant mares in an especially precarious in situation.
The World Organization for Animal Health?s (OIE) standards help prevent the spread of infectious disease.
Keep a close watch on mares at risk for not carrying a foal to term.
Colorado animal health authorities have placed a quarantine on seven horses including the index case.
There are 236 OIE reference laboratories covering 112 animal diseases, including equine-specific ailments.
Ergovaline levels over 200 ppb (parts per billion) in mature hay can cause fescue toxicity in pregnant mares.
Tests confirmed a horse from a Gladstone farm contracted the neurologic form of equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1).
The UKVDL has confirmed 11 leptospirosis abortions so far in the 2012-2013 reproductive season.
While equal percentages of horses and mules were exposed to EHV-1, no mules developed neurologic disease.
The EHV-1 quarantine has been lifted but Oaklawn Park is still not permitting Hawthorne horses on its grounds.
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