Horse breeding from planning through foal care
Horses stabled in a second Churchill Downs barn placed under quarantine by the Kentucky Department of Agriculture because of confirmed cases of equine herpes virus at the track will be allowed to return to limited training on May
Equine herpesvirus type-1 (EHV-1) has been confirmed as affecting horses at Churchill Downs.
Three barns (6, 38, and 39) are currently quarantined on the backside of Churchill Downs.
To date, a total of five
As of May 20, there were no new equine herpesvirus (EVH-1) cases at the Columbia, Md. horse facility that has been handling a number of cases of the neurologic form of the virus since late March. Private veterinarians, Maryland state animal
A long umbilical cord increases the risks for abortions and stillbirths in horses. Complications include strangulation of the foal and excessive cord twisting, writes Karin Bosh in a recent edition of Equine Disease Quarterly, a newsletter
While the socialization process of transforming fillies and mares from racetrack careers into broodmares might be easier than it is for stallions, biologically it is significantly more complex for distaffers to begin their reproductive
Churchill Downs and Kentucky veterinary officials are segregating horses because of a possible outbreak of an equine respiratory virus in three barns, but no horses entered in Saturday’s Preakness Stakes (gr. I) are affected.
Rusty Ford of
Necropsies from the two horses affected by neurologic signs at Churchill Downs showed the horses had lesions consistent with equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy (damage to the brain and/or spinal cord). Three other horses are currently showin
The Blood-Horse and The Horse have learned that three barns at Churchill Downs have been put under quarantine because of a possible outbreak of an equine viral respiratory disease. Rusty Ford of the Kentucky State Veterinarian’s
A new invention by Buck Wheeler called the Udderly EZ mare milker is helping breeding farms manage colostrum collection and the sometimes difficult task of milking a mare.
The device is a hand-held, trigger-operated pump that fits on a
What if parasites could communicate with us? That?s the premise behind this year’s National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) Best Of Show winner in the Specialty Division.
During a ceremony held on April 20, 2005 in Phoenix,
Facility managers who are handling a neurologic equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) or “rhino” incident at a Columbia, Md. horse stable reported May 7 that one additional horse had to be euthanized. The horse had exhibited a low-grade fever
University of Idaho mule clones Idaho Gem and Idaho Star are headed for the races.
But first the pair must complete nearly a year of training before they actually reach a racetrack in 2006. That’s when the two clones will begin to prove
Prometea, the world’s first horse clone, turns two years old this month. Italian researcher Cesare Galli, DVM, of the Laboratorio di Tecnologie della Riproduzione-Consorzio per l’Incremento Zootecnico (LTR-CIZ) in Cremona, says the filly is
We have a 25-year-old mare that gets a case of mastitis almost like clockwork every 35 days.
Three horses were euthanatized due to severe neurologic signs caused by equine herpesvirus type-1 at the Columbia Horse Center in Columbia, Md., the week of March 21, according to the animals’ attending vet. Two more horses at the facility
Salmonellosis affects humans, horses, most mammals, and birds. It can cause debilitating–and even deadly–diarrhea. Salmonella bacteria can affect both foals and adults, and they spread easily by horse-to-horse contact and by fomites
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