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Horse Health
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Calculate Your Horse's Risk of Equine Influenza
The app can help horse owners determine the economic risk for equine influenza virus (EIV), which causes one of the most common respiratory diseases in horses.
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British Horse Rescue Groups Requesting UK Outlaw Fly Grazing
Horse rescue groups in Great Britain are calling on legislators to ban âfly grazing,â the practice where horse owners abandon horses on private land to the detriment of the horses and land owners.
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Scope of Laminitis Research Expands to Insulin Production in Horses
Until recent years, excess insulin was not considered a health problem in horses, and it has only been recently that insulin was found to play the key role in the common low-grade metabolic form of laminitis.
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Early Blizzard Serves As Warning for Cattle, Horse and Animal Owners
According to reports the early-autumn blizzard killed as many as 80,000 head of cattle making it South Dakota's worst economic disaster in decades.
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Learn More about Colic and Your Horse from Equine Guelph
Equine Guelph offers their October Colic Prevention Tip: Feed good quality feedstuff: As quality decreases (i.e. mature hay), it becomes 'more stemmy' and less digestible which can lead to impaction in the large intestine.
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Seven More Groups Support American Horse Council Welfare Code
The AHC Welfare Code of Practice is a broad set of principles designed to establish good welfare procedures for organizations to follow to âPut the Horse First.â
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My Horse University To Present Free Webcast: "Winter Care Considerations"
This free webcast on October 15, 2013, will highlight special considerations for winter horse care including forage quality and forage alternatives, changes in exercise routines, clipping and blanketing.
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Protect Horses from Botulism this Fall and Winter
Once botulism toxins enter the horse's system, the incubation period is from 24 hours to several days and the toxins reproduce repeatedly and rapidly in the gut of the animal soon blocking the connections between the nerves and the muscles.
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Cases of Infectious Equine Diseases Reported in Kentucky in 2013
The Kentucky Department of Agriculture is a leader among other states when situations occur which threaten the equine industry and they are vigilant in sounding alerts when cases of infectious diseases such as West Nile virus and equine encephalomyelitis
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7 Tips for Successful Management of Pastures and Horses
Effective pasture and horse management in the fall can have a big impact on the success of your pastures next spring and through the winter months.