Horse Topline-Building Tips
Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA
May 26, 2025
These 6 steps can help transform your horse’s topline from underdeveloped to well-toned.
These 6 steps can help transform your horse’s topline from underdeveloped to well-toned.
Here’s what scientists know about avian influenza and how it might affect horses.
Follow these steps to safely and successfully add a new horse to an existing herd.
During the 2024 AAEP Kester News Hour experts shared new research on equine genetics, atrial fibrillation detection, neck pain, and updated EHV guidelines.
As temperatures rise, tick activity increases—putting horses at risk. Learn how to identify tick-borne threats and implement effective prevention strategies.
Equine metabolic syndrome (EMS) is a metabolic disorder in horses that can cause obesity, insulin dysregulation, and laminitis. Sponsored by Equithrive.
Alternative joint injections to corticosteroids can keep horses comfortable and offer a chance at healing rather than simply masking pain.
Veterinarians administer risk-based vaccines based on a horse’s potential to contract certain diseases.
Respiratory viruses affect more horses than you might think, raising important questions for veterinarians and owners about diagnosis, management, and performance.
If you can see your horse’s ribs or his topline is lacking, he might need to gain weight or muscle. But how can you tell which he needs?
Changing antibiotic prescribing habits can be challenging for practitioners, but small steps, peer support, and stewardship guidelines can improve antimicrobial use.
Learn why experts are questioning routine antibiotic use in equine orthopedic surgery and how alternative strategies can help reduce infection risk.
Reserve antibiotics in equine reproduction for proven infections, not routine use. Vets should utilize alternative treatments to reduce AMR risk when possible.
To reduce antibiotic use in equine practice, vets should limit prophylactic treatment and prescribe only for confirmed infections.
One expert calls antimicrobial resistance a threat to global horse health. Here’s how equine vets can improve diagnostics and use antibiotics wisely to combat this crisis.
Dr. Katie Ellis and Dr. Howland Mansfield discuss what imaging modalities veterinarians might use to accurately diagnose joint disease in horses.
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