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Disease Prevention Webcast

Equine Disease Prevention

Dr. Josie Traub-Dargatz explains how to keep horses healthy by using certain infection control strategies.

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Readers Respond: That Ticks Me Off!

More than 1,700 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “Do you have problems with ticks on your horse(s)?”


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Natural Fly Management

Control flies around your barn with tiny wasps that reduce fly populations, but don’t sting horses or humans

Controlling the flies around you and your horses is very important, not just because of the irritating bites, but

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MRLS: Tent Caterpillars Hatch in Central Kentucky

Experts have reported that Eastern tent caterpillars are developing normally this spring and have just completed the egg hatch stage. Controlling the caterpillars is vital to area horse farms, as University of Kentucky research has strongly linked

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Fire Ants and Horses

Fire ants deliver a simultaneous bite and sting that are very painful and give them their infamous name. The threat of fire ants to healthy, ambulatory adult animals is fairly minimal. However, fire ants can be a significant threat to recumbent

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EPM Prevention

How can you keep your horses safe from EPM?

The best way to keep your horses healthy is prevent them from getting sick. Sounds absurdly simple, right? In theory, this works. But in the real world of trying to protect horse

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Study Leads to Safer Caterpillar Insecticides

Experts predicted that Eastern tent caterpillars (ETC) would begin showing up in greater numbers in Central Kentucky this spring, making it an especially important time for area horse farms to be implementing control strategies. One such strategy

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Pasture Pests Pose Problems

Our farms usually fall into one of two pasture pest categories: Currently overrun, or about to be. Tunneling pasture pests can create serious hazards that can injure horses and ruin your fields. In a recent TheHorse.com poll, 65% of the 518 who

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Practical Mosquito Control

In addition to vaccination, mosquito control is critical in protecting your horses against WNV. Here’s quick review on controlling mosquito populations in your barn:



  • Eliminate areas of standing water through improved drainage, or

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Feed Through Fly Control Options

Veterinarians and drug companies agree that feed-through fly control for horses–along with proper land and stable management–can keep barn fly populations under control. Fly control management is a serious problem facing horse farms of all

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WNV Satellite Conference: Remain Wary of Disease

The years 2002 and 2003 have been the years of the horse, as far as West Nile virus (WNV) is concerned, said Robert Restifo, MS, Public Health Entomologist Administrator and chief of Ohio’s Vector-borne Disease Program, at the third annual West

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WNV: Treatment and Prevention

West Nile virus (WNV) is the number one diagnosed neurologic disease in horses, or close to it, said William Saville, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, of The Ohio State University, at a March 10 Fort Dodge Animal Health educational seminar for”P>West Nile virus (WNV) is the number one diagnosed neurologic disease in horses, or close to it, said William Saville, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, of The Ohio State University, at a March 10 Fort Dodge Animal Health educational seminar “>West Nile virus (WNV) is the number one diagnosed neurologic disease in horses, or close to it, said William Saville, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, of The Ohio State University, at a March 10 Fort Dodge Animal Health educational semina”West Nile virus (WNV) is the number one diagnosed neurologic disease in horses, or close to it, said William Saville, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, of The Ohio State University, at a March 10 Fort Dodge Animal Health educational semin”West Nile virus (WNV) is the number one diagnosed neurologic disease in horses, or close to it, said William Saville, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, of The Ohio State University, at a March 10 Fort Dodge Animal Health educational semin”est Nile virus (WNV) is the number one diagnosed neurologic disease in horses, or close to it, said William Saville, DVM, PhD, Dipl”st Nile virus (WNV) is the number one

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