Identifying Unhealthy Horse Feed and Supplement Ingredients
Clair Thunes, PhD
November 4, 2019
Dr. Clair Thunes explains what certain feed label terms mean and how to spot potential trouble.
Horse breeding from planning through foal care
Dr. Clair Thunes explains what certain feed label terms mean and how to spot potential trouble.
A Suffolk County facility on Long Island where an aged gelding was diagnosed with EHM is resuming normal operations after clearing the required quarantine period.
The affected horse developed equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy (EHM).
Two Maryland horses were also exposed. Officials have quarantined the Loudoun County premises.
The affected Clark County facility is under mandatory quarantine.
With the national horse population trending down, the abundance of options available to horse buyers has left some rare breeds teetering on the edge of catastrophic loss.
This newest case of equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy in California is reportedly not related to the four horses recently confirmed in Shasta and Sonoma counties. Sixty additional horses were exposed.
The attending veterinarian reports two additional horses were exposed.
For the first time, Australian researchers have confirmed 15 cases of chlamydial respiratory infection in neonatal foals. Scientists had previously only detected the bacterium in a few adult horses.
The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food has enacted an official quarantine.
Researchers found that the WFFS gene occurs as frequently in Brazil as it does in the U.S. and Germany, and breeders and vets might need to consider the gene in breeding programs with mares that have increased pregnancy losses.
NYSDAM instituted an official quarantine after a gelding exhibited neurologic signs due to equine herpesvirus.
CDFA recommends vigilance for potentially exposed horses.
The funding will help veterinary scientists improve these large animals’ well-being by preventing and treating health challenges such as equine herpesvirus, strangles, and fungal infection.
Although the researchers saw no effect of starch source on fecal bacteria in broodmares, parturition did appear to alter the hindgut microbiota.
Use these disease prevention strategies to protect your horse on the farm, at the horse show, and in the breeding shed.
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