Show Smart: Be Aware of Virus Outbreaks
Edited Press Release
November 6, 2016
Take steps to prevent your horse from contracting potentially deadly diseases such as EHV or rabies during competitions.
Horse breeding from planning through foal care
Take steps to prevent your horse from contracting potentially deadly diseases such as EHV or rabies during competitions.
Two Saddlebred horses tested positive for the non-neuropathogenic strain. One of the horses has been euthanized.
The Reproductive Diseases in Horses Symposium will take place Nov. 19 in Lexington, Kentucky.
Because the mare’s uterus is not designed to support two pregnancies, veterinarians have developed methods for detecting and reducing twins.
A French genetics team determined a common breeding pool is not only realistic but also preferable.
Genomic tools could help address horse health problems that couldn’t be resolved with earlier technologies.
Asymptomatic carrier stallions maintain infectious agents in the breeding population from one season to the next.
“Genomics” covers all aspects of genes, including structure and function. Here’s what equine researchers are learning.
The same bacterium causes two very different conditions in horses. Dr. Craig Carter explains.
Reported diseases include African horse sickness, herpesvirus, influenza, strangles, and equine infectious anemia.
Leptospirosis is a serious bacterial disease that causes both recurrent uveitis (“moon blindness”)—especially in Appaloosas, draft horses, and Warmbloods—and abortion in horses. But now there’s a vaccine to prevent it. Is your horse is at risk?
Hydrotubation involves passing an endoscope through the cervix and uterus into the oviduct and flushing it with saline.
The test is designed to identify which stallions are most likely to remain long-term carriers of the virus if infected.
Learn about the university’s Thoroughbred breeding program, a winning one-eyed gelding, and more.
Researchers found that particular genetic types of E. coli responded to the various antibiotics differently.
Being a responsible horse owner involves deciding if and when castration is appropriate.
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