Insulin dysregulation can coincide with high ACTH concentrations in the fall, even when an animal does not have PPID.
If managed with the right nutrition plan, horses and ponies with histories of laminitis can have successful careers.
Researchers have discovered that ponies that have suffered from laminitis have higher blood pressure and therefore overproduce vasodilators.
A veterinarian says both age and breed can affect a horse’s predisposition to insulin resistance.
Judges often place overweight ponies—which could be at greater risk for metabolic issues and laminitis—higher than their leaner counterparts in competition.
Friesian breeders can test for the variant to implement early veterinary management and avoid breeding carriers.
Learn what makes managing ponies special—from their critical need for nutritional supervision to their often feisty personalities.
Donkeys have similar dental structures as horses, and they’re at risk of developing many of the same kinds of dental issues. But, unlike horses, their problems often go overlooked—and that’s to their detriment, according to donkey specialists.
A donkey and mule expert offers tips for veterinarians on how they can best approach, handle, and read their nonhorse equid patients.
While successful embryo transfer in donkeys is rare, a new technique created by Brazilian researchers resulted in two surrogate jennies giving birth to healthy donkey foals.
Donkeys can thrive off straw and other low-quality forage, unlike most horses and ponies, and now we have a better idea why.
Study: Arabians with certain genes coding for less muscle fatigue, more time-efficient energy production, and improved muscular contraction have better racing results than those without.
Scottish researchers found a half barley straw and half hay ration helped ponies lose weight.
Some of the Arabians in a far-reaching genomic study had as much as 62% of their DNA coming from Thoroughbreds.
Does your horse have thin soles? Here’s how to manage his feet to help keep him sound.
Planning a weight-reducing diet is easy until faced with the loving eyes of a pony begging for his alfalfa.
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