Where There’s a Will…
Sushil Dulai Wenholz
June 1, 2005
While not many of us enjoy contemplating our own death, it’s an important consideration for any horse owner.
How to care for the basic health needs of horses
While not many of us enjoy contemplating our own death, it’s an important consideration for any horse owner.
As our horses age and their bodies start to fail, we have to meet their changing nutritional needs.
We have expanded our semen collection/shipping facility, so we can now keep up to eight stallions in residence and accommodate local stallions trailering in just for semen collection as needed through the season. In the past we have depended upo
The horse industry in Colorado is instituting an Equine Smart Card identification program that will meet National Animal Identification System (NAIS) standards. The NAIS is being developed by the USDA and state agencies, and it is intended to
Research suggests that horses’ size, diet, and distance traveled depended on external factors.
Herpesvirus is a particularly well-evolved virus that occurs in many mammals, such as humans, horses, cats, and cows. Each strain tends to be species-specific, meaning that viruses infecting one animal species do not usually infect another
Piedmont Pharmaceuticals’ wholly owned company Triad Specialty Products announced on April 7 that it has licensed its equine feed-through fly control product to Pfizer Animal Health. Triad developed the product and received regulatory clearance
When The Horse editor Kim Herbert asked me if I might be interested in writing on one of my favorite topics–old horses–it brought to mind so many great memories from my childhood. I was an endurance rider, so I got to be really close to
My veterinarian has estimated that my horse’s pharynx is 30% constricted and has diagnosed cicatrix.
At some point senior horses exhibit slower, stiffer gaits, dull coats, or subtle signs of disease.
Fire can be both friend and foe in nature. While fire can do extensive damage to the environment, the damage is often short-lived and the long-term benefits outweigh short-term problems as new vegetation springs forth to populate the landscape.
Members of the National Animal Supplement Council (NASC) met recently in San Diego with federal regulators from the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) and representatives from the American Association of Feed Control Officials to
Higher dosages of phenylbutazone (Bute) don’t make chronically lame horses any sounder than standard doses, according to a study in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. Thus, giving a lame horse
Arthritis causes considerable pain in your horse, and understanding the disease cycle is necessary in order to prevent further damage from occurring.
A presentation on recent research into herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1) vaccines was given by Klaus Osterrieder, DVM, DVM Habilitation (a German equivalent to a PhD), associate professor of virology in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell the
While the socialization process of transforming fillies and mares from racetrack careers into broodmares might be easier than it is for stallions, biologically it is significantly more complex for distaffers to begin their reproductive
Stay on top of the most recent Horse Health news with
