Fall Horse Health Care Tips
Agricultural Communications, Texas A&M University System
November 6, 2011
Taking certain steps during autumn months can help ensure your horse maintains his good health.
Taking certain steps during autumn months can help ensure your horse maintains his good health.
The newly approved medication is the first and only FDA-approved product for managing PPID in horses.
Recommended changes include raising the minimum equine age allowed to run and expanded veterinary inspections.
Using computational modeling, researchers can examine “what if” scenarios related to equine injuries.
Endotoxin release–which happens when the bowel’s checks and balances are altered–causes serious issues.
Health Canada’s Veterinary Drugs Directorate accepted the low molecular weight hyaluronate sodium product.
Reliable equine pain models are required for testing the effectiveness of new or existing pain-killing drugs.
Before welcoming a new horse home, it is important to investigate the quality and health of that animal.
Nielsen presented during TheHorse.com’s webinar entitled “Horse Worms: Learning to Live with Them.”
Sheila Schils, PhD, discusses electrotherapy’s place in physical therapy and the different devices available.
Researchers are still working to fully understand this pasture-associated muscle disorder of unknown cause.
Nielsen joined the UK Gluck Equine Research Center as an assistant professor in parasitology in August.
Are you concerned about worms in your horses? If you’re not, you should be! Learn why we need to learn to live with the worms to a degree, and how to protect your horses while minimizing dewormer resistance.
Reduce your horse farm’s fly and mosquito populations by eliminating insect breeding areas and using pest control strategies, such as insecticides, biological controls, and good hygiene.
Dr. Martin Nielsen of the University of Kentucky describes the take-home messages from a recently published study that found winning Standardbred racehorses had significant worm burdens–even more than some horses that did not perform as well.
High strongyle egg counts in Standardbred trotters didn’t have a negative association with racing performance.
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