The horses' heart is responsible for delivering oxygenated and nutrient-rich blood throughout the body and removing metabolic waste, and any disruption can have detrimental effects.
The governing bodies regulating horse shows and large equine events, along with the veterinarians involved, need to have an action plan in place before potential biosecurity events occur.
Prevention is in the textbooks we read, and equine vet conferences always have a good panel of speakers on biosecurity, so,we as veterinarians advocate for prevention with our clients.
No silver bullet exists for managing mud on horse farms, no product or practice eliminates mud, but careful management can minimize the severity of the issue.
Sadly, until an Equus is in real trouble health wise, the horse owner is often ambivalent about checking out the details of the horse’s alimentary canal and how it actually works.
While munching on hay during a trailer ride can help a horse’s digestion, feeding grain on the road is a bad idea.
Mosquitoes that have become infected by feeding on virus-carrying birds are responsible for transmitting diseases to other birds, horses and people.
Treating symptoms is rarely the answer to solving a medical issue long term since an equine’s metabolic processes can quickly become unbalanced if feed supplements are used without care and attention.
Reactions that horses develop to a vaccine are due to the horse’s immune system responding to the vaccine and they are generally mild, self-limiting and often don’t require treatment.
Caterpillars’ hairs, especially their cuticles, embed in the lining of the mare’s gut leading to bacterial infections that can adversely affect the fetus and placenta by breaching the gut’s protective barrier.