Arthritis a Prevalent Condition in Horses
...specifically desensitizes the joint that is thought to cause pain. If the nerve block temporarily eliminates any indication of unsoundness, the pain can be attributed to that site. A thorough...
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Learn About Lameness
The University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, has put together a website to educate horse owners about lameness. By clicking on the Lameness Lab, an equine enthusiast can watch videos...
Gastrointestinal Tract Basics: The Horse’s Foregut
...for movement of the gut). The most common problems involving the esophagus are acute obstruction (choke), strictures (narrowing or scarring), and diverticula (outpocketing). The usual sites for choke are the...
Olympic Logistics: Feeding the Horses in Tokyo
...federations in placing orders, and supports the team that fulfills on-site orders for feed, hay, and bedding. This event has presented some unique challenges, including a yearlong postponement due to...
Controlling Large Strongyles in Horses
...methods of combating strongyles have found favor with horse owners. The traditional method is to deworm all horses on a property at regular intervals. This method greatly reduces parasite numbers,...
HYPP: Diet Makes a Difference
...identify horses carrying the defective gene that causes HYPP. According to Sharon Spier, D.V.M., Ph.D., writing on the University of California-Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory Web site, “The test is extremely...
Deworming Horses: Predatory Fungi May Help
...that it took for horses to begin shedding parasite eggs in their feces. Once eggs reappeared in feces, horses that received the spore-embedded feed had lower numbers of parasite eggs...
Diagnosing Equine Tapeworms Using Saliva
...parasite populations resistant to common products. Faced with ineffective dewormers and no new chemical dewormers currently in development, horses are once again susceptible to parasite-related diseases, such as larval cyathostominosis,...
Diagnosing Strongyle Infection by Lipidomic Analysis
...detecting parasite infestation is labor-intensive and can have low diagnostic sensitivity. Several other methods are used but no way has yet been developed to detect all important equine parasites in...
Diagnosis and Treatment of Subchondral Cystic Lesions in Horses
Subchondral cystic lesions, also called bone cysts, are abnormalities of bones and joints that may or may not cause lameness. They can occur in multiple sites in horses. These lesions...
Common Lamenesses in Western Performance Horses Identified
...ankles and the structures beneath them; The hock was the second most common site of lameness (16% of cases); The stifle was the third most common site of lameness (9%...
EPM Diagnostic Test Developed for Horses
...number refers to horses that actually have EPM, between 22% and 65% of horses in the United States have developed antibodies to Sarcocystis neurona, the protozoal parasite that is the...
Olympic Logistics: Feeding the Horses in Tokyo
...federations in placing orders, and supports the team that fulfills on-site orders for feed, hay, and bedding. This event has presented some unique challenges, including a yearlong postponement due to...
Tapeworms in Horses
...attachment for A. perfoliata is the ileocecal junction, the site where the small intestine joins the large intestine, and the inch-long tapeworms may be found in large numbers at this...
Bone Cysts: New Surgical Technique Described
...at implant sites, cosmetic defects, or reaction to the foreign material was observed; Twenty-seven horse raced after surgery (71%) and an additional six were actively training; and Twenty-one of the...