Tips for Preventing Impaction Colic in Horses This Winter
Kathryn P. Sullivan, VMD
December 4, 2018
Learn how to avoid and address impaction colic, a common cause of cold-weather emergency farm calls.
Horse-health-problem risk factors, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment
Learn how to avoid and address impaction colic, a common cause of cold-weather emergency farm calls.
Strangles is highly contagious and can spread rapidly through horse populations and barns, so quick containment is essential. One veterinarian offers his tips on how to stop strangles from spreading.
In the past 30 years, researchers have made great strides in understanding gastric ulcers. Those findings and ones yet to be made can help improve horse health and welfare now and into the future.
Equestrian Canada reported Nov. 30 that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency National Reference Laboratory confirmed the EIA case on Nov. 21.
Not every owner has access to pasture for their horses. Download this free report to learn more about drylots and special considerations for housing horses in pastureless regions.
To boot, researchers found that it’s not always easy for owners to spot ocular issues: Owners reported that fewer than 4% of the study horses had some sort of ocular disease, but researchers determined that nearly 90% of them did.
Researchers tested a sulfadiazine and trimethoprim suspension specifically designed for oral administration with positive results.
An 8-year-old Saddlebred mare from Loudon County and a 7-year-old Tennessee Walking Horse from Monroe County tested positive for WNV.
A user in a wildfire-affected area asks if supplements can help support her horse’s respiratory system.
After several pox outbreaks in horses and donkeys in Brazil, researchers are still working to understand how the equids got the vaccinia virus, why humans don’t seem to get it from equids, and why some equids get it in a population and others don’t.
Parul Suri’s research is mainly focused on Sarcocystis neurona, a parasite that can cause EPM in horses.
While wire ingestion was once considered a death sentence, researchers recently found that surgery can save some affected horses, especially if the foreign body is identified and treated early.
Officials confirmed three EIA cases in horses from Kaufman, Tarrant, and Tom Green counties.
This is the fourth confirmed case of WNV in North Carolina horses in 2018.
Vitamin E deficiencies can cause neurologic and other health problems in horses. As such, at-risk horses—from breeding stock and foals to equine athletes and pasture pets—might benefit from supplementation.
The unvaccinated 7-year-old Percheron gelding presented with hind-limb ataxia and muscle fasciculation but has a favorable prognosis for recovery.
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