Fall Equine Wellness: What Your Horse Needs
Edited Press Release
September 7, 2017
Administer booster vaccinations and target deworming treatments to help protect your horse’s health.
Administer booster vaccinations and target deworming treatments to help protect your horse’s health.
Mouth-gaping caused by bit pain could make it difficult for horses to breathe, researchers say.
Veterinarians and researchers are on an ongoing mission to reduce the number of racehorse injuries and deaths during racing and training.
Australian veterinarians identified equine influenza in August 2007. The disease was eradicated in six months.
Eight veterinarian students from Lincoln Memorial University (LMU), in Harrogate, Tennessee, spent their summer collaborating with researchers in the University of Kentucky (UK) Department of
Dr. Allen Page’s multifaceted role at UK will involve working as a scientist and veterinarian.
A thoracotomy improved affected horses’ survival rates while dehydration increased the odds of death.
Learn how to help your horse remain free of this common and highly contagious respiratory disease.
A specific strain of S. zooepidemicus was likely behind the horses’ coughing and nasal discharge.
Rhodococcus equi is the most serious cause of bacterial pneumonia in foals 4 to 6 months old.
From 1995 to 2014, the OIE received reports of 54 disease events associated with international horse movement.
Confirmed diseases include influenza, EHV, strangles, nocardioform placentitis, piroplasmosis, EIA, and more.
Find out how veterinarians diagnose this highly contagious disease in both acute cases and long-term carrier horses.
Learn how veterinarians treated an 18-month-old Andalusian colt that suffered nasal collapse after a training accident.
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.
Vaccination and biosecurity can help keep your horse healthy when you take him off the farm.
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