A Beer for Our Horses
Clair Thunes, PhD
September 18, 2017
With Oktoberfest in full swing, we started to wonder: Is the racetrack tradition of giving horses beer a good idea?
With Oktoberfest in full swing, we started to wonder: Is the racetrack tradition of giving horses beer a good idea?
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Veronica Bill is studying the relationship between forage chemical composition and equine digestion and nutrition.
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Study results suggest that owners’ responses to colic signs vary considerably based on their knowledge and experience.
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I have a healthy 21-year-old retired gelding who will not eat any type of hay in his stall at night. I have concerns about him standing in his stall all night without chewing and developing ulcers as a result. What are my options?
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The goal of medical management centers around breaking the associated pain cycle and reestablishing proper GI function.
Barbed sutures eliminate the need for knot-tying and distribute tension on the suture line more evenly, researchers say.
Several ingredients claim to help equine gastric ulcers, but only a few have research behind them.
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