The equine respiratory tract is so highly specialized for exercise that even the slightest deviation from normal can limit a horse’s athletic career.
Learn about the steps you can take to reduce the number of asthma-causing airborne particulates in your horse’s barn.
If you’ve got a horse with insect bite hypersensitivity, midges might not be your only problem. Researchers found that IBH horses are more likely to develop allergic reactions elsewhere—specifically, in the breathing passages.
Adjusting a horse’s environment and administering medications as needed can help some asthmatic equids return to function.
Horses with equine asthma are more likely to have pharyngeal abnormalities in the upper airway during exercise than their asthma-free counterparts.
Study results revealed that box stalls have much higher concentrations of potentially disease-causing pathogens in the air compared to run-in sheds.
Consider these tips to help protect your horse’s breathing zone and most effectively achieve optimal respiratory health this winter.
Researchers have suggested a link between DDSP and lower airway inflammation in racehorses, but the concept hadn’t been explored in sport horses. So, scientists in Belgium reviewed medical to identify instances and outcomes of DDSP treated medically.
However, researchers did observe an 86% reduction in inhalable dust concentrations when horses were fed haylage instead of hay and stalls were bedded with wood shavings instead of straw.
Researchers are asking horse owners, managers, and riders to complete a survey about air quality, conditions, arena footing, and associated health outcomes in horses and humans.
The ACVIM published a new consensus statement on treating, controlling, and preventing strangles in horses.
Weanlings turned out with shelter access had no more respiratory issues than those housed in warmer stables during a harsh Finnish winter.
Poor air quality in stalls is a leading cause of equine asthma. Discover ways to improve air circulation when designing horse barns from Morgan Hayes, PE, a livestock systems engineer at University of Kentucky.
Dusty arenas could be compromising your respiratory health, right along with your horse’s.
Lecture topics will include performance-limiting upper airway issues, infectious respiratory diseases, EIPH, and more.
Find tips on handling bacterial pleuropneumonia, pneumothorax and hemothorax, rib fractures, and ARDS in foals.
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