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Horse Health
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Research: Rein Tension While Riding Horses
Researchers from Duchy College in the UK set out to find out what differences existed between a rider's perceived rein tension and their actual rein tension when riding a horse.
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Why the Quality of Your Horse's Day Matters
Domestication has not removed the basic social, physiological and psychological needs of the horse, and some management and living conditions fail to meet these needs for horses.
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Noseband Tightness and Your Horse's Comfort and Health
The researchers sought to find out if these tight nosebands were doing physical harm or otherwise compromising equine welfare.
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Racing Queensland Offering Free Hendra Vaccine to Horse Owners
In addition to the free vaccination, Racing Queensland has also released a fact sheet for the subsidized Hendra virus vaccination program for all registered thoroughbred and standardbred horses.
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Horse Owners Cautioned about Slaframine in Forage
It is not uncommon for some horses in a pasture to be more effected than others by slaframine found on clover, since horses vary in their preference for clover and sensitivity to the toxin.
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Veterinarians Stress Importance of Hendra Virus Vaccine for All Horses
Veterinarians in Australia are rallying around the call for vaccinations for all horses against the life-threatening Hendra virus.
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Tally of Mosquito-borne Diseases in Horses Continues Upward
According to government reports, 53 cases of Eastern equine encephalitis and 17 cases of West Nile virus have been reported in horses in 2013 with more expected this year.
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Three Florida Horses Test Positive for EEE
Three horses in the Micanopy area of northwestern Marion County, Florida, recently tested positive for the eastern equine encephalitis virus.
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Do Horses Suffer from Gluten Intolerance?
Researchers of the Free University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University in the Netherlands have now identified gluten sensitivity as a potential cause of equine chronic inflammatory small bowel disease in sport horses.
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Horse's Immune System May Be Key to Successful Pregnancies
Horses have a low birth rate with many pregnancies failing within the first few weeks after conception and new research may have found the reason.