Vet and Professional

News and issues for equine health professionals

Dental Floating Value

Maintaining dental health is believed to be critical to optimum feed intake, digestive tract health, and body condition. In Western Canada, there are about 70,000 PMU mares that usually don’t get routine dental care. Researchers from the Western

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Vaccine Care and Handling

“A lot of very smart people are not aware of how to properly handle vaccines,” said Rocky Bigbie, DVM, MS, director of field veterinary services with Fort Dodge Animal Health, at the 2005 Western Veterinary Conference held Feb. 20-24 in Las

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Vet Student/Farrier Courses

The importance of podiatry in equine practice and to the overall well-being (especially soundness) of the horse is well known. Treatment and prevention of lameness involving the distal limb centers around a thorough knowledge of hoof care. Due to

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Hoof Radiographs

Your horse is limping and a detailed visual exam by your veterinarian reveals a small black spot, suggesting a puncture wound. Your veterinarian radiographs the hoof: The X rays confirm the diagnosis, clearly showing the direction and depth of

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Recognizing and Responding to Neglect

Equine veterinarians are in a unique position to recognize neglect or the potential for neglect in horses. They have direct access to horses and horse property, and they get to know horses and their owners by providing care for many years. As

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The AAEP Announces Unwanted Horse Summit Participants

Bringing together the equine industry’s major organizations for the first time to address the issue of unwanted horses, the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) will host a one-day Unwanted Horse Summit onTuesday, April 19 during

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Conformation of the Juvenile Equine Athlete

Limb conformation has bearing on the type of procedure used to alter a particular defect, including periosteal elevation, transphyseal bridging, hoof augmentation, and changes in management. Conformation also affects selection of sale and breeding

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Forelimb Conformation and the Thoroughbred Racehorse

“What is the relationship between conformation and performance, and what can we do to impact it?” These questions have been asked by those focused on performance in many species, and they were the focus of one presentation by Liz Santschi, DVM,

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Ophthalmology for Equine Road Warriors

Owners calling about horses with painful eyes or eye trauma should be told to have a dark examination area available, and to have four bales of shavings or hay ready to use as a head rest for standing surgery/diagnostics.

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AAEP Convention 2004: Hormone Therapy in the Mare

This discussion at the 50th annual American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) Convention in Denver, Colo., Dec. 4-8, 2004, was presided over by Patrick McCue, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACT, associate professor of equine ambulatory medicine at

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Sacroiliac Joint Pain

There were a couple of take-home messages from Dyson’s presentation. One was that sacroiliac joint problems can dramatically compromise a horse’s ability to perform, and the other was that using an analgesic injection can be a valuable technique in diagnosing sacroiliac problems.

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Shock Wave One Year Later

Scott McClure, DVM, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at Iowa State University, has been at the helm of much of the shock wave therapy research performed in horses over the past five years. At HMT’s

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Ontario Veterinary College Opens MRI Facility

The University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College has opened its new $5-million magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facility. It’s one of only a few worldwide that can accommodate a wide range of animals, from cats and dogs to horses and

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