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Horse Health
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Preventing Dehydration in Horses
When you help your horse minimize the losses or quickly replace water and electrolyte losses, then you will be helping your horse maintain optimal health and optimal performance.
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Equine Infectious Anemia Cases Highlight Need for Training of Clinicians to Prevent Spread of Disease
The investigation indicated the route of the infection identified was EIA-infected blood contamination of heparinized saline in multiple use bottles used to flush catheters by one or more emploees.
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Health Can Airborne Viruses Such as Equine Herpesviruses Survive in Water?
Study showed that in the case of equine herpesviruses, horses or other mammals could be infected by herpesviruses from water bodies long after the animals that shed the virus had left the area.
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Dr. Getty's Four Favorite Calming Ingredients for Horses
A horse’s history and his current environment, can influence behavior, so removing stressors from your horse’s life may be the best calming agent of all.
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AAEP Issues Field Diagnostic Guidelines for Equine Acute Infectious Diarrhea
Our goal is to provide practitioners with comprehensive and accessible resources to ease diagnostic selection and increase the diagnosis of equine infectious disease.
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Research Shows NSAID'S May Have Harmful Effects
Horse owners should always seek veterinary guidance before administering NSAIDs, especially for extended periods or with other medications.
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So Your Horse Has a Laceration! What To Do?
In the case of lacerations, the most important considerations are to stop any bleeding, prevent infection, and repair the laceration to prevent scarring or further injuries to the horse.
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Review of Roaring & Possible New Surgical Procedure in Horses
Roaring is most common in large breed horses, with draught horses estimated around 33% prevalence.
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Feeding the Toothless Horse - Part 2
Make sure the older or tooth-challenged horse gets to eat his ration and the boss horse is not cleaning up all the feed.
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Feeding the Toothless Horse - Part 1
The loss of teeth and resulting problems decrease the horse's ability to chew hay and grain and the horse may require a special diet.