Grooming Your Horse: A Quick Health Exam
...have pain in the opposite leg or hoof. While you use one hand to brush your horse, run the other hand over his skin to feel for cuts, hairless patches,...
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Hay Storage and Use
...this condition. Stored hay must be protected from ground moisture and rain. A barn loft offers a dry site, but air circulation may be minimal depending on the design of...
Honey Has Healing Properties for Wounds in Horses
...the wound sites were rinsed and honey was applied to wounds on one foreleg of each horse, while the other foreleg served as a control. After 12 days of treatment,...
Head Shaking May Have a Variety of Causes
...to examine your horse and treat any abnormalities. For further ideas, or just some sympathy and support, contact one or more of the Web sites devoted to equine head shaking....
Health Problems in Friesian Horses
...very quickly after the rupture occurs. In Friesians, however, the site of aortic rupture is almost always at the aortic arch where the artery turns to descend through the body....
Heat Stress in Horses: An Overview
...under the skin and evaluating sweat production at the injection sites. For more information on heat stress, consider reading this in-depth report, first published in the proceedings of the 2024...
Heaves and Inflammatory Airway Disease in Horses
...inhalers used in humans with asthma. The Web sites of these companies are excellent sources of information about reactive airway disease and how these devices can be used for treatment....
Help for Heaves in Horses
Inflammatory airway disease in horses, often referred to as heaves, robs horses of their potential as athletes. Subtle signs mark the onset of disease—the occasional cough, an intermittent wheezing, a...
Help! My Horse Has a Loose Shoe!
...been deformed or is quite loose and you’re far from home. Larger shows usually have a farrier on the site to take care of emergencies, but if you’re traveling, at...
Eating Well But Losing Weight: Is This Horse All Right?
A horse’s body weight normally fluctuates a little bit due to season, age, health status, parasite load, dental condition, amount of concentrate consumed, access to pasture, level of exercise, and...
Acidosis and Starch Fermentation Studied
...invite them to participate in the study and to ask about their feeding practices. Information was collected about feeds and feed management, and site visits were made to collect samples...
Breeding: Give Your Mare the Best Chance
...mare to be chosen for breeding. Mares selected for breeding need to be in excellent physical health and should be on a regular course of hoof care, immunizations, parasite control,...
Colic Research: Colonic Microchip Trackers in Horses
...others moved more frequently around the abdominal cavity. “The researchers reported that the pelvic flexure could be found on the opposite side of the abdomen within a two-hour window. Specifically,...
Injecting Horse Joints with Antibiotics: Pros and Cons
...in high concentrations at the site of infection that may be particularly useful for fighting “floating biofilm,” which is an accumulation of microbes embedded within a self-produced extracellular matrix that...
Treating Laminitis in Horses: Approaches to Diagnosis
...media sites during the same timeframe. Researchers collected 214 usable responses: 142 from equine-only ambulatory or referral hospital vets, 58 mixed-practice vets, and 14 other vets (academia, research, racetrack work,...