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Horse Health
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Your Horse Has a Question: Are You Feeding Me Omega 3s Every Day?
Year-round supplementation is necessary for horses consuming hay-based diets because once grass is cut, dried, and stored, most, if not all, of the essential fatty acids are oxidized and destroyed.
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Equine Guelph Goes All Out for Senior Horses with Its Tool of the Month
Equine Guelph's Tool of the Month covers most areas of better senior equine health with a senior horse challenge that highlights important information for all horse owners.
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Keep Horses Healthy and Comfortable as Summer Fades into Fall
During hot summer and fall days horse owners should make sure that horses are protected from dehydration, flies, accidental injuries and infectious diseases.
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Mares Who Act Like Stallions - Causes and Concerns
A dramatic alteration in the personality of a mare may be a result of a normal physiologic change in testosterone levels or result of a pathological condition such as an ovarian tumor.
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Summer Cold? Summer Sores? What's Making Your Horse Miserable?
What appears to be a summer cold or summer sores in your horse may be an infestation of worms.
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The Right Horse, but with a Health Problem
Pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID), also referred to as Equine Cushing’s disease, is one of the most common endocrine disorders in horses.
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Veterinary Event Aims to Bring Nutrition Insights to Help an Ever-Growing Population of Horses Aged 20+ Years
We're learning more every day about how to provide the best nutrition not only for senior horses, but for horses needing to lose weight or who suffer from laminitis.
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What Does It Mean When a Horse Has 'Kissing Spines'?
Spinal processes are the bony projection off the back of each vertebrae, and there is normally a space between each one. If they come together, this bone-on-bone touch causes excruciating pain.
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Horses Benefit with Steam-Powered Successes in Tokyo Olympics
Haygain helps alleviate the stress that comes with changing a significant portion of the horse's diet so horses are performing at their best on the world stage.
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Don't Let Dust Diminish Your Horse
Even a horse not exhibiting signs of breathing issues may be under assault from airborne particles so it is important to avoid asthma and respiratory issues with barn management.