Tuesday’s Top Tweets from the 2016 AAEP Convention
The Horse Staff
December 7, 2016
Tweets and take-homes from sessions on lameness, rehabilitation, equine back issues, and more!
All aspects of caring for performance horses
Tweets and take-homes from sessions on lameness, rehabilitation, equine back issues, and more!
Michael Blowen is an advocate of racehorse aftercare and founder of Old Friends Thoroughbred retirement center.
Learn how recreational riders can condition and protect their equine weekend warriors.
Dr. R. Reynolds Cowles Jr. focuses much of his practice on lameness in racehorses and performance horses.
They might be less common than limb fractures, but skull, rib, pelvis, and withers fractures are no less important.
Researchers hope to track the progress and prevalence of radiographic abnormalities in yearling Thoroughbreds.
A reader asks about the risks and benefits of her horse eating a favorite treat: grapefruit. Our nutritionist weighs in.
The Thoroughbred Charities of America Stallion Season Auction is the organization’s largest annual fundraiser.
In one study 15 affected horses presented with a sudden change in ridden behavior, but only one had a history of trauma.
The TAA now has 64 accredited organizations operating at more than 180 facilities across the United States and Canada.
Surgeons have honed a new approach to correct airway collapse in horses.
Veterinarians have begun research, using the scanner in a clinical trial on client-owned horses.
Of the 758 respondents, only 106 (14%) said they weigh everything their horse gets to eat.
Rib fractures can cause problems even when there’s no history of trauma or obvious signs indicative of a fracture.
Horses that plow, heal, or protect have distinctly different lifestyles than the average riding horse.
No other horses at the Thoroughbred track and casino have presented with clinical signs consistent with EHV-1 infection.
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