How To Prevent Fescue Toxicosis in Broodmares
The Horse Staff
January 19, 2022
Fescue toxicosis can cause pregnancy losses and reduced reproductive efficiency in mares. Learn more in this visual guide.
Fescue toxicosis can cause pregnancy losses and reduced reproductive efficiency in mares. Learn more in this visual guide.
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Fifteen more horses were exposed.
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The affected horse was diagnosed after presenting with fever and signs of colic.
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Both affected equids reside at an Oregon rescue facility where 29 more equids were exposed.
Two of the four affected horses have been euthanized.
The horse’s facility is under voluntary quarantine following the positive test.
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The 2-year-old Quarter Horse had recently returned from a show in Fort Worth, Texas.
Thirty-eight exposed horses on the affected horse’s premises are under official quarantine.
The mare’s boarding facility had pre-emptively enacted movement restrictions following a mare in another province showing clinical signs days earlier.
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