A listener asks how to make pastures safe for insulin resistant horses. Equine forage researcher Krishona Martinson, PhD, MS, responds and shares the risks associated with allowing IR horses to graze.
Considering a switch? A nutritionist weighs the benefits and drawbacks of feeding horses pelleted hay.
Grooming gives you visual and tactile information about your horse’s health.
A veterinarian dispels 4 common rumors that often sway an owner’s decision to pursue surgery for a colicking horse.
A reader’s senior Thoroughbred lost weight during the winter. Our equine nutritionist suggests simple ways to increase his body condition.
Is frequent circular exercise linked to osteoarthritis?
Penn Vet researchers found older horses with small intestinal lesions that survive colic surgery are just as likely as younger horses to develop postoperative reflux or to survive to hospital discharge.
As benign as it might seem, this fresh forage can cause more harm than good. Here’s what to remember.
Pilot study: 82% of unsound racehorses with osteoarthritis treated with 2.5% PAAG joint injections showed no signs of lameness six weeks after treatment.
Management strategies include inhaled corticosteroids and environmental changes such as steaming hay.
Do older horses that eat senior feeds have a higher risk of choke?
Find out if oats in your horse’s poop piles means his feed—and your money—are going right through him.
Horses can experience more than one disease process at the same time, an occurrence known as comorbidity. In this article, we’ll take a look at equine diseases such as PPID and laminitis that veterinarians most commonly see in conjunction with other conditions.
Vet bills are an unavoidable, and often costly, part of horse ownership. But forgoing routine health care to reduce veterinary costs can backfire. Here’s how keeping up on your horse’s preventive care can help you save money in the long run.
Learn about steps veterinarians can take to figure out why a horse is losing weight.
Temporomandibular joint changes could cause pain as well as behavior problems and poor performance in horses. Or not.
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