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Horse Health
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Eastern Tent Caterpillar Egg Hatch Now Underway in Kentucky
Caterpillar management around horse farm paddocks comes down to keeping pregnant mares away from infested trees and either removing or not planting preferred host trees near paddocks.
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Equine Nutrition: Transitioning From Winter to Spring
If you need to make any changes to your horse's spring feeding regime, be sure to make the changes slowly and consult a nutritionist or your veterinarian for advice or guidance.
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Free Webinar - March 29 - Veterinarian to Speak about Peak Equine Respiratory Health
Recognizing the surprisingly subtle symptoms of early respiratory disease is a focus of upcoming free webinar on March 29th.
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UK Gluck Center and Industry Leaders Responding to an Uptick of Foal Diarrhea Cases
According to the AAEP, it is important for a veterinarian to evaluate foals under a month old experiencing diarrhea because they can develop life-threatening dehydration in six to eight hours.
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Is Your Barn Harming Your Horse's Health?
Horses' lungs can harbor disease without anyone noticing until it reaches an advanced state and signs such as coughing and exercise intolerance develop.
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Rain and Wet Spring Weather May Bring Increase in ERU in Horses
With ERU, the horse's immune system inappropriately attacks normal or host proteins in the eye, causing damage that can lead to blindness.
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Horse Coronavirus Facts from Equine Disease Communication Center
Coronavirus is spread when feces from an infected horse is ingested by another horse and can also be transmitted when horses make oral contact with surfaces contaminated with infected feces.
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Equine Disease Communication Center Serves Critical Role During Disease Outbreaks
Horse owners and others are encouraged to sign up for free alert service by The Equine Disease Communication Center for accurate and timely equine disease information.
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Protecting Horses from Poisonous Plants
With weather affecting forage available to horses, they are more inclined to ingest unfamiliar plants so horse owners need to be familiar with poisonous plants and signs of toxicity.
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Biosecurity Protocols Reminder Following Recent EHV-1 Outbreak in Horses in Europe
Early identification and reporting of ill horses is critical in order to trace possible points of exposure and to aid in the prevention of further spread of the disease.