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Horse Health
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ColiCare™ Provides Peace of Mind When It Matters Most
SmartPak's colic surgery reimbursement program offers one horse owner the opportunity to save her best friend.
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Quality of Life for the Overweight, Insulin-Resistant Horse
If your horse's history is one where he has not had a steady supply of forage 24/7, often for years on end, the impact on his metabolism and his brain is very tough to reverse.
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Equine Diet and Laminitis - No Link to Fructan
There are no magic-bullet supplements to protect from laminitis - only an appropriate basic diet can help.
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AAEP Publishes Borrelia Burgdorferi Infection and Lyme Disease Guidelines
Despite the high prevalence of exposure and seropositivity to B. burgdorferi in horses residing in endemic regions, confirming clinical Lyme disease remains a diagnostic challenge.
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Keeping Your Horse Cool During Summer Heat
When working or being ridden, your horse gets hotter much faster than you do and is more susceptible to the negative effects of heat stress.
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Risk-based Horse Diseases - Summer Considerations for Horse Owners
Your veterinarian will help you decide what vaccines are essential for your horse, when they should be administered and at what frequency to help provide optimal immunity.
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Six Ways to Help Horses Stay Safe and Comfortable During Hot Weather
When humidity is high and sweat no longer evaporates to cool the skin, horses are prone to heat exhaustion and heat stroke which can be extremely dangerous.
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Prevent the Heat from Affecting the Health of Your Horse
During hot summer weather, horses and other equines face temperatures that can lead to heat stroke, heat exhaustion, and possible fatalities.
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New Twist Added to Decades of Sea Otter Research and a Parasite Affecting Horses
S. neurona may be most familiar to horse owners, as the cause of equine protozoal myeloencephalitis, or EPM and UC Davis developed the diagnostic test for the disease in horses.
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New Case of Easterm Equine Encephalitis Found in New York
Public Health Dept. warns of eastern equine encephalitis found in Rossie-area horse in St Lawrence County, New York.