Differing opinions in classifying the severity of the stage of osteoarthritis in horses from radiographs was revealed to be a good case for not using radiographs alone in diagnosis.
Equine Atypical Myopathy, a seasonal, pasture-associated disorder, is characterized by degeneration of muscle fibers which can lead to sudden death.
Warmblood fragile foal syndrome is a severe, usually fatal, genetic disease that manifests itself after birth in affected horses.
Traumatic injury accompanied by severe bleeding, colic, acute lameness,shock, and choking are emergencies for which all horse owners need to be prepared.
Alarmingly, horses are nearly four times as likely as dogs to get rabies and horses across the U.S. can be exposed to rabies through infected wildlife, bats, raccoons, foxes and skunks.
When pushed to race at high speeds, a horse's legs can fracture beneath them in an event called a breakdown. with seventy percent of these injuries occurring in the third metacarpal bone.
Telemedicine allows veterinarians to discuss cases and guide horse owners on how to manage a situation that doesn't require a visit,and then monitor cases from a distance.
Hot and wet conditions exacerbated by storms such as Hurricane Laura have increased the number of mosquitoes that could be carrying viral horse diseases.
Founder is a nautical term meaning sink, so when the coffin bone rotates or sinks inside the hoof capsule, when the hoof bone bond fails, founder is a sequela (result) of severe laminitis.
You need to trim each foot to be in balance and not trim to make them look the same or to a fit a specific measurement.