Vaccination Recommendations for PPID and EMS Horses
How should a senior horse with equine Cushing’s disease and equine metabolic syndrome be vaccinated?
How should a senior horse with equine Cushing’s disease and equine metabolic syndrome be vaccinated?
Does alfalfa cause kidney or respiratory problems or make horses hyper? Specialists shed light on these myths and more.
Adiposity can cause a variety of health problems in performance horses, from heat stress to arthritis.
An equine nutritionist’s advice on choosing treats for horses and ponies that might be prone to insulin dysregulation, obesity, or EMS.
Is one grass hay variety more palatable than another? Should I feed my horse the first or second cutting of hay? Equine nutritionists answer these questions and more about this essential forage.
Owners should take an individual and regional approach to planning low-NSC diets for ID horses.
Dr. Clair Thunes, an independent equine nutritionist, answers some of our readers’ most common questions about feeding older equids. Learn about senior feeds, feeding older horses with metabolic disease, helping horses gain weight, and more.
Establishing a standard glucose testing method worldwide could generate more accurate results, leading to better care and welfare of horses with PPID, or equine Cushing’s disease.
Insulin dysregulation can coincide with high ACTH concentrations in the fall, even when an animal does not have PPID.
Learn about the differences, and a few key similarities, between these two endocrine diseases.
The horse’s fed vs. fasted state, dose and type of corn syrup, season, and simultaneous endocrine testing might alter the results of this insulin dysregulation testing method.
How to recognize at-risk horses and manage them appropriately to prevent severe disease.
The Type 2 diabetes drug might help horses with chronic hyperinsulinemia and laminitis that haven’t responded to management changes.
If managed with the right nutrition plan, horses and ponies with histories of laminitis can have successful careers.
Researchers compared the test’s results to those of a commonly used laboratory method to determine their association.
Despite poor hoof quality, the feral horses on Sable Island had a low prevalence of laminitis.
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