According to Dr. Joe Pagan, cardiovascular health is essential for exercising horses. The exercising horse depends on a number of different physiological systems to supply fuel to the muscles and remove waste products during exercise.Â
Doing some simple projects before the snow flies can make horse chores a lot easier during the winter.
Health officials in a number of states including Rhode Island and Massachusetts are looking forward to cold weather because several successive nights of below freezing temperatures will kill off mosquitoes that carry West Nile virus and Equine Encephaliti
With the arrival of cold weather, many horse owners consider how to increase the caloric intake of some of their horses by adding additional fat calories, especially those horses that tend to hard keepers or horses that score 4 or below on the body condit
Equestrian Sport Productions (ESP) announces that they have updated information regarding biosecurity protocols for the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC).Â
Dr. John Byrd of Horsemen's Lab will attend the 9th International Conference on Equine Infectious Diseases hosted by the University of Kentucky's Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center in Lexington, Kentucky. The conference runs from October 21â
When horse owners think about providing for their horse's needs, dental care probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind. However, equine dental problems can lead to unacceptable behavior, oral abscess and even nutritional issues.
Road to the Horse is proud to welcome Platinum Performance, Inc. into their sponsorship lineup as the event heads to the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY for the very first time.
During hard economic times, finding enough feed for a horse may be difficult for some horse owners. The temptation may be there to let a horse eat feed that is not meant for horses such as cattle feed or feed or grain intended for poultry or other animals
In a follow-up to previous research, a group of scientists at the University of South Florida and Auburn have established that, in fact, snakes are a source for the mosquito-borne Eastern equine encephalitis virus that kills horses and humans.