Horse breeding from planning through foal care
EHV-1 is more than just a cause of snotty noses in young horses. Learn more about this highly infectious disease and how to protect your horse in this special report.
How to unravel the reason behind your horse’s head-scratching weight loss.
Steve Reed, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, of Rood & Riddle Veterinary Hospital, in Lexington, Kentucky, offers his insight about equine herpesvirus-1, including diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Shavahn Loux has been involved in a wide range of equine reproduction projects, particularly focusing on monitoring gestational health using bioinformatic tools.
Irish scientists recently tested a new OCD repair method that’s based on the idea of replacing the damaged tissue with healthy tissue.
Find out how long it takes for a horse to be protected from disease after vaccination. Dr. Elizabeth Davis explains.
Sterilizing stallions temporarily can help with feral population control, equine venereal disease management, behavior issues, and more.
Researchers know the modern domestic horse is the result of thousands of years of selective breeding. But they’re still striving to understand how and when equine breeding programs got started and evolved.
A well-trained and skilled technician can make a reproduction veterinarian’s job much easier and more enjoyable, especially during breeding season.
While some species develop a local immune response, sending special protective cells to the uterus itself, mares don’t, researchers learned recently. Rather, they appear to send those cells elsewhere as soon as semen enters the uterus. Where they go, nobody knows (yet).
A well-educated, trained, and reliable technician is invaluable to ensure things are in order and running smoothly. It makes a veterinarian’s day and the semen collection process much easier.
The equine genomics research community has outlined how to face the challenges associated with translating Horse Genome Project outcomes into clinical practice to benefit horses.
Researchers identified a 90% pregnancy rate in mares impregnated using the Wilsher embryo transfer technique and a 70% pregnancy rate in mares treated using traditional embryo transfer protocols.
Learn about the core vaccines recommended by the American Association of Equine Practitioners and the five deadly diseases they prevent.
Confirmed diseases include equine influenza, equine herpesvirus, piroplasmosis, salmonellosis, rabies, and more.
RESPE—the French epidemiological network for equine diseases—works main missions is to monitor equine diseases in France and throughout Europe and to alert the horse industry when a contagious equine disease outbreak is confirmed.
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