When a pain medication or strategy is no longer providing a senior horse with relief, the kindest option might be euthanasia.
Learn about the AAEP’s euthanasia guidelines and how to cope with the loss of an equine partner.
Veterinarians share their advice for preventing lower-limb problems and rehabilitating injured horses, from therapies to back-to-work schedules.
While NSAIDs are valuable tools for controlling horses’ pain and inflammation, they do come with risks.
After testing horses during a 2022 EHV-1 outbreak, researchers found even those showing no signs shed common respiratory pathogens.
Follow these steps to prevent disease spread on your farm.
Dr. Christine Johnson of Leclair Equine, in Berthoud, Colorado, demonstrates how to listen for gut sounds.
A veterinarian describes how to safely check your horse’s capillary refill time.
Practitioner technique and skill determine the value of ultrasound images of the suspensory ligament.
Look for educational information about soft tissue injuries in horses on TheHorse.com starting November 21.
This step-by-step graphic will guide you through your horse’s blood test results.
Keeping donor and recipient mares in moderate body condition might improve survival rates of transferred embryos.
Time is life for a foal. Here’s a look at the top causes of illness in newborn foals and how to manage a sick foal.
Is my horse at risk of catching pigeon fever from another horse at my trainer’s barn?
Learn about the signs of pain in horses—and how sedation can help—in this archived podcast.
Learn about serum amyloid A and how veterinarians can use it for early identification of inflammation in horses.
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