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Feeding and Caring for a Horse - More than Dollars and Cents
With horse care and ownership comes a price and it typically comes in the form of money! Whether you have one horse or many horses or are thinking about getting into horses, the conversations you have with horse folk all tend to center around what it take
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Complexities of Insulin Resistance in Horses
Although documented in ponies over a quarter century ago, the existence and clinical significance of insulin resistance in equines have only recently become widely recognized and accepted.
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A Billion Reasons to Manage Your Horse Pasture
One high-shedder horse can drop 6+ billion eggs that have the potential to become infective larvae in a pasture over a yearâs time. One low-shedder horse can drop 1.5+ billion eggs that have the potential to become infective larvae in a pasture over a y
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Horses Starving Because of Cost of Hay
The Humane Society of Huron Valley is seeing an increase in the number of cruelty calls about hungry horses, spurred in part by a nationwide shortage of hay.
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Parasite Resistance: Why Horse Owners Can't Ignore It
Still treating today's parasites based on yesterday's calendar? Â In the world of human medicine, youâve likely heard about concerns of bacteria becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics.1 It works like this: Each time a person takes an ant
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Do Cribbing Horses Lose Benefits of Sound Sleep
A study at Hartpury College in England turned up a cribbing-associated fact that may affect the health of horses that engage in cribbing activity. The study looked at patterns of night sleep in horses that cribbed and others that did not crib. The horsesâ
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Equine Guelph Sponsoring Course on Horse Nutrition
Recognizing the importance of proper nutrition plays a key role in equine health and welfare, and is an essential tool when it comes to maintenance, reproduction and performance of the horse.
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Save Money and Protect Your Horse's Skin from Injury!
Itâs a maddening conundrum for veterinarians. The skin is the largest organ of a horseâs body, but its responses to dermatological trauma or irritation are astonishingly limited and uncomfortable.
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The Importance of Protein in Your Horse's Diet
In the latest edition of the My Horse University news, letter, Holly Spooner, Ph.D. of Middle Tennessee State University gives important details about protein in the feeding of horses. According to Dr. Spooner, Â protein may be the most misunderstood nutr
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Night Time Eating and Sleeping Behaviors in Horses
A study by researchers from Hartpury College on the frequency and duration of nocturnal ingestive and sleep behaviors of horses bedded on straw versus shavings to establish whether differences in frequency and duration of sleep and ingestive behaviors wer