Set Up Your Senior Horse For Cold-Weather Comfort
Edited Press Release
November 30, 2017
Ensure you’re providing your senior horse with the support he needs to stay healthy all winter long.
Ensure you’re providing your senior horse with the support he needs to stay healthy all winter long.
Study results suggest caretakers spend nearly $435 more annually managing obese equids compared to their nonobese ones.
Find a year’s worth of tips to keep your horse healthy in every season.
Oil? Rice bran or flax seeds? Fat-fortified feed? Learn how to pick the best option for horses that are hard-keepers.
How can you make sure your horse is getting the nutrition he needs during the cold months? Ask our equine nutritionist!
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Seven speakers presented lectures during a mini-symposium focused on “Ensuring the Golden Years: Care of Old Horses.”
Of the 515 respondents, 232 (45%) said they use joint supplements to help keep their arthritic horses comfortable.
Pharmacological osteoarthritis therapy focuses on preventing or reducing pain and improving joint function.
With winter approaching, schedule a dental check-up and nutritional status assessment, especially for older horses.
Skin diseases and lameness were the most commonly reported ailments, affecting 31.1% and 23.4% of horses, respectively.
Readers said maintaining weight, osteoarthritis, and other lameness were their top senior horse care concerns.
A nutritionist can tell you if you’re over- or underfeeding or supplementing and address other equine diet concerns.
Vets are using serum amyloid A, a naturally produced protein, to detect equine infections and monitor treatment.
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