Snake Bite Preparedness
Edward D. Voss, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM
October 1, 2005
Our area has a healthy population of rattlesnakes. I would like to be prepared in case one of the horses gets bitten.
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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One farm in Stanton, Ky., on the Red River lost 15 babies, five broodmares, and a stallion to flooding on Sunday, May 30. Heavy rains that day rapidly forced waters higher in the already swollen river, and within three hours the river had covere
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Researchers in the United Kingdom recently advanced scientific knowledge of equine grass sickness with a three-year study that found the disease to be strongly associated with low antibody levels to the bacterium Clostridium botulinum.
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