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Horse Health
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Does Your Horse Really Need a Blanket?
A damp or wet blanket draped over a horse in the cold can do much more harm than it could ever do good, but in extremely cold conditions, any type of horse may need a winter blanket.
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What Do Recent FDA Warnings to Equine Stomach Ulcer Product Manufacturers Mean?
âWhen a horse shows clinical signs of ulcers, and an owner gives that horse a medication that does not contain an appropriate amount of active ingredient, the horse is not likely to get betterâ.
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Horse Colic Risk on the Rise in Fall and Winter
Changes in diet and stabling often occur at the same time as changes in weather and activity levels, and these changes can impact your horse's risk of colic.
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Recent Research in Horses Shows Obesity Not Just a Problem for Humans
The Animal Health Trustâs obesity research has helped to highlight obesity as a significant equine welfare issue and provided valuable information for owners.
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Horse Owners: Beware of Botulism During Winter Feeding of Horses
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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Research Points To Better Practices in Hoof Care for Horses
Research on human nails carried out by experts in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science at The University of Nottingham can be applied to horses and conditions associated with their hooves which can be life threatening.
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Scoops Measure Volume, Not Weight: A Reminder from Dr. Getty
...since the stomach is relatively small, it can only process a small amount of food at a time, so supplemental meal size should be limited to no more than 4 lbs (1.8 kg) for an 1100 lb (500 kg) horse.
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Developing the Sport Horse Part 3 - LEGS! Common Injuries and How We Treat Them
Every year riders are plagued with limb injuries to their equine partners. Sometimes this is a small blip in the training schedule; other times it spells the end of a competitive season.
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What Horse Owners Should Know About Round Worms
It is very important to do stool sample examinations on young horses to see how well roundworms are being controlled, because resistance in roundworms to Ivermectin has been demonstrated.
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Bayer HealthCare and EQUUS Magazine Hosting Webinar on Equine Protozoal Myelocencephalitis
Join Bayer HealthCare and EQUUS Magazine at 8 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, October 30, for a webinar with noted veterinarians Steve Reed and James Little about the current thoughts on Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis.