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Horse Health
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Is Your Horse Getting Trace Minerals Essential to Health?
The use of copper and zinc supplementation in modern horse feeds stems from the possible role of these two nutrients in reducing physitis, osteochondrosis, wobbler syndrome, and other developmental orthopedic diseasesp>
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Is Your Horse Suffering from Back Pain?
When diagnosing back pain in horses, attention is directed at determining whether pain arises primarily from malfunction of bones and muscles in the back or whether it is secondary to malfunction of structures elsewhere.
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Don't Let the Sun Set on a Case of Choke in Your Horse
When horses are greedy eaters or have had esophageal trauma, or ongoing dehydration that compromises swallowing action, they may become predisposed to choke.
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Racing Suspended Due to Equine Herpesvirus
The racing director for Vernon Downs said that five horses all from the same trainer and housed in the same barn tested positive for equine herpes and one had to be euthanized.
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Prevent Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes from Infecting You or Your Horse
 Horse owners are advised to take steps to reduce the number of mosquitoes around their barns, stables, and homes, including eliminating standing water in farm yards as well as making sure horse vaccinations are up-to-date.
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Watch Out for Pesky Flies on Horses as Summer Approaches
To protect their horses, owners should have an on-going fly control program based on minimizing the fly population by getting rid of or covering up their favorite breeding environments.
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Disease Alert: Strangles Strikes Horses in Australia
Strangles, a highly contagious horse disease caused by Streptococcus equi has broken out in the Australian Capital Territory and parts of southern New South Wales.
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Attention to Daily Details Will Help Keep Your Horse Healthy
Subtle early signs of ill health in horses are easily missed without a daily inspection, yet early detection is essential, and the more quickly appropriate remedial care is taken, or treatment applied, the better.
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What To Expect When Vaccinating Horses
Vaccines have side effects due to the immune stimulation they have to create, most of which are mild and transient, but it's important to be able to distinguish between minor side effects and those reactions that warrant a call to your veterinarian.
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NSAIDs - Helpful or Harmful in Horses?
 It is now recognized that NSAIDs cause side effects in the gastrointestinal tract of the horse such as stomach ulcers, severe inflammation and injury to the colon, and damage to the kidneys particularly when horses are dehydrated.