Summer Horse Health Tips
Wendy Krebs, DVM
June 22, 2020
Remember these pointers to help ensure your summer riding season is fun and safe.
Remember these pointers to help ensure your summer riding season is fun and safe.
Researchers found that owners of horses with severe asthma struggle to implement recommendations for a dust-free equine environment.
As horses get older, they face common age-related conditions and diseases that require management and care. Learn more about those conditions and diseases in this slideshow.
The guidelines make new recommendations for core and risk-based vaccines for horses. The committee further emphasizes that routine vaccinations are considered essential during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Adjusting a horse’s environment and administering medications as needed can help some asthmatic equids return to function.
Newborn foals are easy targets for every kind of bacterium, virus, and other pathogenic organism. Here are some steps you can take to maximize your foal’s immunity from gestation to weaning.
Have you walked into a barn and smelled a pungent, burning odor? That’s ammonia, and it’s hurting your horse.
Adult horses are at greatest risk of infection in late winter and early spring.
Management strategies include inhaled corticosteroids and environmental changes such as steaming hay.
All exposed horses remain under voluntary quarantine.
Is the pungent smell of ammonia taking over your horse barn? Try a stall deodorizer or refresher.
Eleven additional horses are suspected positive for infectious respiratory disease, and more than 50 exposed horses are under voluntary quarantine in Douglas County.
An additional 16 horses are under voluntary quarantine.
An additional 20 horses were exposed.
Research topics include nocardioform placentitis, bisphosphonates, exertional rhabdomyolysis, stem cells, equine asthma, and more.
The attending veterinarian suspects nine additional influenza cases.
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