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How a Percheron Mare Turned Me Into a Re...
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Dr. Audrey DeClue describes how treating a six-months-pregnant Percheron mare would dramatically change the course of her life and career.
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by Erica Larson | Aug 2, 2012
More research is needed to fully understand equine movement disorders such as shivers and stringhalt.
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by Nancy S. Loving, DVM | Jul 24, 2007
Shivers has been recognized by horse owners for more than a century and refers to a chronic nervous or neuromuscular condition that in a 1962 text was said to be “as common as dirt.” This statement referred to the period when draft horse populations
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by Midge Leitch, VMD, Dipl. ACVS | Jun 1, 2007
I have a Trakehner/Thoroughbred cross that starts flexing his hind legs rather noticeably when trotting
Read MoreWhat Is Stringhalt?
by Multiple Authors | Dec 1, 2004
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?
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