Information on pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID), also known as Cushing’s Disease in horses.
Our equine nutrition expert offers a reader advice on how to feed a thin horse with a history of laminitis without causing another bout of the disease.
The primary factors that influence equine Cushing’s test selection are season and severity and number of clinical signs.
Early diagnosis and appropriate management, including pergolide, can help improve PPID horses’ quality of life. Learn more in this free download, sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim.
Soaking hay for horses with PPID or insulin dysregulation can reduce the WSC and ESC values, making it safer for these horses to consume.
Grazing horses at night can help keep them at a healthy weight and reduce their sugar intake.
Learn how horses go from metabolic to laminitic and ways to manage them.
Manage at-risk horses’ diet and exercise to help avoid this painful condition.
Are horses that develop sepsis-related, supporting-limb, or idiopathic laminitis at a higher risk of developing endocrinopathic laminitis down the road?
The do’s and don’ts of feeding horses with 4 common health conditions, including gastric ulcers, metabolic disorders, and more.
Can an active PPID horse have pasture access and performance feed? Our equine nutrition expert offers advice on feeding a gelding with managed PPID.
An owner seeks advice on managing a senior horse with Cushing’s disease during a heat wave.
How should a senior horse with equine Cushing’s disease and equine metabolic syndrome be vaccinated?
Does alfalfa cause kidney or respiratory problems or make horses hyper? Specialists shed light on these myths and more.
Dr. Clair Thunes, an independent equine nutritionist, answers some of our readers’ most common questions about feeding older equids. Learn about senior feeds, feeding older horses with metabolic disease, helping horses gain weight, and more.
Establishing a standard glucose testing method worldwide could generate more accurate results, leading to better care and welfare of horses with PPID, or equine Cushing’s disease.
Insulin dysregulation can coincide with high ACTH concentrations in the fall, even when an animal does not have PPID.
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