How to care for the basic health needs of horses
How much attention do you give your horse’s feet? Many times it’s just the old
The two Miniature Horses and the Miniature Donkey came trotting through the early morning gloom from the frozen field into the spotlight of the barn for their morning hay. As they got closer, I noticed they were moving … funny. Not the ha-ha
No Joint, No Horse. Should this be the new motto for 21st century horses? Joint injury, joint disease secondary to trauma or injury, and osteoarthritis (OA) are major
She could’ve just kept driving. But instead of dismissing the idea of intervention as someone else’s sad
After experiencing her area’s worst snowstorm since 1968, Beth Sandland of Sandy, Ore., was unable to visit her boarded horses for three weeks.
However, other horse owners have had to deal with a more serious side effect of winter weather:
After witnessing a rare (and unsuccessful) infanticide attack by a stallion on a one-hour-old foal, behavior researcher Meeghan Gray, PhD, from the University of Nevada, Reno, reported findings from the macabre event.
“In this first report
Surgery for the brilliant filly Indyanne, who fractured a sesamoid in her left front ankle while leading in the stretch of the La Brea Stakes at Santa Anita Park Dec. 27, has been postponed, trainer Greg Gilchrist said the morning following the
Get some practical tips on how you can reduce the risk fire in your barn.
In a survey of leading three-day event riders, researchers found that the majority of riders fed their horses based on research-driven recommendations, but the number of supplements used per horse did raise some eyebrows.
During the Jersey
A new surgical technique for managing deep corneal abscesses in horses is effective and cosmetically pleasing.
In California, teff is being called the “perfect grass for foundered horses.” But is teff hay always safe for horses that are intolerant of high-sugar forage?
A gift of vaccines to help prevent the suffering–and even death–of thousands of working horses and donkeys has arrived in Ethiopia, arranged as a gift by a Colorado State University veterinarian. The vaccines, donated by Fort Dodge Animal
Emergency breakaway systems lock trailer brakes automatically if the trailer becomes disconnected from the tow vehicle. Maintaining this equipment is an aspect of trailer maintenance you don’t want to overlook, although hopefully you’ll never
“We have a crisis in Thoroughbred racing,” stated Scott Palmer, VMD, of New Jersey, a past president of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) and head of the AAEP Racing Task Force.
The AAEP Racing Task Force was conceived
There is considerable interest in finding out how, and particularly why, animals react to stress the way they do. Denmark’s Aarhus University reports that applications to a new PhD course, developed by two scientists from the Faculty of
An Arabian horse breeding operation announced a stallion is a carrier of cerebellar abiotrophy.
Stay on top of the most recent Horse Health news with
