World Horse Welfare Cautions Against Horses Overgrazing
World Horse Welfare
June 2, 2012
Lots of rain means lots of grass. Keep your horse healthy and from overgrazing with these tips.
Lots of rain means lots of grass. Keep your horse healthy and from overgrazing with these tips.
Recent work suggests surgery could be an option for headshakers, with a long-term success rate of nearly 50%.
Can clipping horses’ body hair off for the winter cause hives? And are there any remedies?
Firocoxib improved lameness scores, comfort, and mobility in most horses with osteoarthritis, a study showed.
Post-anesthetic myelopathy is a rare but deadly complication of general anesthesia in horses.
Although injured horses need time off, they could need greater amounts of some nutrients than during training.
The AAEP defines a compounded drug as one that is created by manipulating an existing FDA-approved drug.
Researchers will use samples from horses with fevers of unknown origin to look for tick-borne infections.
One scientist said the high number of hendra cases reported in 2011 emphasized the need for a vaccine.
Ticks typically begin to appear in late spring and early summer, but were reported weeks earlier this year.
S. neurona causes the neurologic disease EPM. A fully sequenced genome will provide a resource for virulence factor and S. neurona antigen characterization, which could lead to new immunizations or therapeutics against the parasite.
The field day will take place June 5, 2012, from 4-8 p.m. CDT at Darling 888 Ranch, located in Princeton, Ky.
Two Saudi show jumping horses tested positive to for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs at competitions.
Understanding ailments older foals can develop and treatment options increases the patient’s survival chances.
Veterinarians will provide veterinary care for working donkeys in Arusha, Tanzania.
Proceeds from the sale of “How to Start and Run a Rescue” will go directly toward funding Operation Gelding.
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