Horse-health-problem risk factors, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment
Managing horses with PPID is an ongoing commitment and requires careful veterinary observation. By monitoring both clinical signs and endocrine values, many affected horses can return to athletic function and/or maintain a good quality of life.
Many factors affect your horse’s ability to mount an effective immune response, one of which is his age. Learn more about the horse’s immune system and how it functions at every stage of his life.
Dietary restriction plus a low-intensity exercise program helped improve overweight horses’ insulin sensitivities, which could help reduce their risk of developing laminitis.
The affected 10-year-old gelding was vaccinated against EHV-1, is not showing neurologic signs of disease, and is recovering with veterinary treatment.
Beginning Jan. 1, 2020, 2-year-olds would be prohibited from receiving furosemide within 24 hours of a race at coalition tracks. Beginning in 2021, the same prohibition would extend to all horses participating in any stakes race.
As mosquito season approaches, animal health officials are encouraging horse owners to have their animals vaccinated against EEE and WNV.
The positive Quarter Horse mare attended events at the Brazos County Expo Center and the Taylor County Expo Center in mid-April. She is currently quarantined and being treated by a veterinarian.
The ongoing Equine Respiratory Biosurveillance Program revealed new information on infectious respiratory disease threats, including EHV-1 and EHV-4, influenza, S. equi, equine rhinitis A/B viruses, and more. Here’s what you should know.
The 24-year-old pony mare began exhibiting clinical signs of disease on April 5 and was subsequently euthanized.
Sarcoids are believed to be the most common equine skin tumor, affecting about 2% of the worldwide population. Here’s what you need to know about these potentially problematic skin growths.
Equine influenza virus activity has increased in the U.S. and Europe recently. Here’s what you can do to protect your horse.
Two horses that attended the NRCHA Stallion Stakes, which took place March 30-April 6 in Las Vegas, tested positive for EHV-1. Additionally, an unrelated case was diagnosed in a Clark County horse with neurologic signs.
The positive horse attended a reining event in Ardmore, Oklahoma, the week of March 18. Since that competition, the horse has not traveled to any other event and is under the care of a Brazos County veterinary hospital.
Reported diseases included African horse sickness, atypical myopathy, contagious equine metritis, salmonellosis, and more.
The University of Saskatchewan’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine will cover the fee associated with the necropsy of aborted fetuses, stillbirths, or euthanized foals suspected of having Warmblood fragile foal syndrome to gather additional information about the genetic disease.
Commonly called Potomac horse fever (PHF), equine neorickettsiosis can result in fever, colic of variable severity, diarrhea, abortion, and other clinical signs.
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