Mares in Heat: What’s Normal, What’s Not?
Karen Hopper Usher
May 4, 2025
Mares get a bad rap for recalcitrant estrous behavior, but hormones and tumors could also be at play.
How to care for the basic health needs of horses
Mares get a bad rap for recalcitrant estrous behavior, but hormones and tumors could also be at play.
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Researchers are exploring CBD’s potential to reduce joint pain in horses through a multiphase study on its efficacy.
The latest research-based recommendations on managing equine metabolic syndrome and insulin dysregulation. Sponsored by Equithrive.
Abruptly putting a horse on pasture can lead to colic or laminitis. Here’s advice to help avoid health problems.
Alternative joint injections to corticosteroids can keep horses comfortable and offer a chance at healing rather than simply masking pain.
Veterinarians administer risk-based vaccines based on a horse’s potential to contract certain diseases.
Respiratory viruses affect more horses than you might think, raising important questions for veterinarians and owners about diagnosis, management, and performance.
Read about how veterinarians incorporate therapies such as acupuncture and PEMF to help your horse feel his best.
These 5 steps can help you prevent and eliminate odors on your farm and create a cleaner space for your horses.
Find out how veterinarians diagnose and treat this complex condition.
Address the condition’s primary, predisposing, and perpetuating causative factors for a successful outcome.
One reader wants to know how she can manage her metabolic horse that is also prone to gastric ulcers. Here’s what she should consider.
Do you have a horse with flaky skin and a dry mane and tail? The right feed might help.
Read about how one veterinarian treated a particularly challenging case of the equine skin condition commonly known as scratches.
Learn how veterinarians get to the bottom of this complex cause of poor performance.
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