Training horses in the spring and summer can present some challenges. Learn how your horse’s body adapts to exercise training, how he acclimates to spring and summer weather conditions, and what you can do to help him perform at his best.
In this visual guide, learn about the vital hoof structures of the navicular apparatus and what can go wrong with them.
A researcher who specializes in aging equines offers nutrition, dental care, parasite control, vaccination, exercise, and health monitoring for seniors.
What impact do structural deviations really have on your horse’s soundness and performance? Here’s what you should know.
Researchers: Understanding the impact of early exercise on growing horses could help prevent bone fractures in the future.
From growing a thick winter coat to producing heat as they digest forage, here’s how horses are inherently designed to cope with cold weather.
Researchers found individual horses can have such widely different vertebral columns, they don’t even have the same number of vertebrae.
This technology has helped veterinarians diagnose upper airway dysfunction during exercise.
The equine respiratory tract is so highly specialized for exercise that even the slightest deviation from normal can limit a horse’s athletic career.
Electrical impedance tomography could be simple enough for veterinarians to use in the field to diagnose asthmatic horses without anesthetics or an assistant.
The choice to use antimicrobials to treat lower airway issues in horses isn’t always clear.
Critical care specialist: With little time to act, veterinarians called upon to help horses struggling to breathe must arrive organized, prepared, and confident.
You expect dusty hay to set off inflammation in asthmatic horses’ lungs. But did you know dusty hay and indoor housing can also affect their gut microbiota?
Exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage is a condition in which horses experience lung bleeding during exercise. Veterinarians and researchers continue to investigate the condition.
Study: Horses’ arteries grow thicker and harden with age, making them more prone to rupture.
A 10-day-old foal in Switzerland became the world’s first horse to undergo successful balloon valvuloplasty to correct a faulty pulmonary artery valve.
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