Helping Horses Worldwide
Stephanie L. Church, Editorial Director
November 1, 2005
As a responsible horse owner, you make management decisions that affect the current well-being of your horse and his future vitality.
As a responsible horse owner, you make management decisions that affect the current well-being of your horse and his future vitality.
Abby is a Tennessee Walking Horse mare who was recently purchased by a Virginia family as a 5-year-old and shipped there from Tennessee to train and show. A dental examination six months after purchase found that her right and left lower first
Routine equine dental care is important for three reasons, says David O. Klugh, DVM, Fellow in the Academy of Veterinary Dentistry, owner of Equine Dental Associates in Yamhill, Ore.:
Surgically repairing or stabilizing fractured ribs in a newborn foal can reduce the risk of further complications such as puncturing a vital organ, said Robert Hunt, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVS, and Fairfield Bain DVM, MBA, Dipl. ACVIM, ACVP, ACVECC. Th
Our area has a healthy population of rattlesnakes. I would like to be prepared in case one of the horses gets bitten.
A rainy, cool summer in Manitoba, Canada, was turning to fall when Thunder, a 2-year-old Paint/Arab cross gelding with lots of white across his body, began to show signs of colic. He was treated for colic four times in two days. Annette Fleming,
My 19-year-old gelding has a swollen thyroid gland on the right side of his throatlatch. It was about the size of a grap
Human defibrillators are being used successfully to treat horses with irregular heartbeats (fibrillation). Kim McGurrin, DVM, a graduate student at the University of Guelph’s College of Veterinary Medicine, developed a procedure as part of her
Sometimes horses die suddenly when they aren’t involved in athletic competition. You walk out to stall or paddock one morning and your good trail horse or companion animal is lying dead, even though it had appeared normal and healthy when you fed the
Would black walnut tree shavings be safe to use as trail mulch?
Equine nutritionists and wise horse owners have long known that obesity in horses is not a good thing.
If a bit is causing pain or discomfort, communication breaks down and your horse’s performance, as well as his mouth, suffers.
I read about horses dying of “heart attacks,” but I’ve had veterinarians tell me there’s no such thing as a horse having a heart attack. What are people talking about when they say a horse died of a heart attack?
My 29-year-old Quarter Horse gelding has been diagnosed with a condition that my veterinarian called “stringhalt.” What causes this condition? What is the treatment and prognosis?
Results of a four-year prospective study designed to determine the influence of training and heart size on atrioventricular (AV) valvular regurgitation (backflow of blood from the lower to the upper heart chambers) in Thoroughbred racehorses, an
Fall deworming is important; winter is usually when internal parasites do the most damage and rob the horse of vital nutrients.
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