New Method of Fixing Fractures in Small Equids
Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA
June 13, 2017
A special splint and cast can produce good fracture healing and pasture soundness in ponies, donkeys, and small horses.
A special splint and cast can produce good fracture healing and pasture soundness in ponies, donkeys, and small horses.
Researchers have confirmed that donkeys have far more subtle ways of expressing pain than horses.
Donkeys are commonly diagnosed with sarcoids. Other common horse tumors, however, are not prevalent in donkeys.
A missense mutation is behind the donkeys’ lack of pigmentation, researchers learned.
I have a 30-year-old hinny who is very skinny and is losing weight. Is there anything that I could give him to make him more comfortable, help him gain weight, and not cause him harm?
The event offers two tracks: one geared to veterinary professionals and the other to nonmedical donkey enthusiasts.
Improving working equids’ health and welfare could help them work longer and better to the benefit of their owners.
Researchers found that test results should be interpreted differently for donkeys than they are for horses.
Donkeys aren’t horses, and nowhere is that more apparent than in their feed needs. Find out what your donkey should eat.
Learn about donkeys, leptospirosis, West Nile virus, influenza, preparing for disasters, and working equids.
In the past, numerous wild horses and burros have been hit and killed or sustained injuries leading to euthanization.
The BLM is scheduled to gather and remove about 40 wild burros from range near Beatty, Nevada, on Sept. 1.
Researchers found no evidence that donkeys pose more of a disease threat than horses at mixed-equine events.
The BLM will gather approximately 125 burros from the private property in Nevada starting Aug. 17.
The public/media pre-gather tour for the McGee Mountain wild burro water- and bait-trap gather will take place Aug. 18.
The BLM will gather and remove approximately 125 burros that have strayed from the McGee Mountain herd management area.
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