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Horse Health
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Surprising Female to Male Ratio in Early Horse Pregnancies
The higher insulin-like growth factor-1 concentrations in female embryos in pregnant horses might represent a mechanism to ensure the survival of the embryos under conditions that would otherwise strongly favor males.
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Race Horse Deaths Baffle Trainer Baffert
When an ordinarily healthy horse returns to the barn after a workout or race and dies within an hour, the death is defined as Sudden Death Syndrome.
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Curtail Use of Antibiotics in Horses to Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance
When antimicrobials are used, the bacteria exposed to the antibiotic will be inhibited or die, but a few bacteria will likely survive and ultimately only resistant bacteria remain.
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New Elastic Kinesiology Tape Created for Horses
Equi-Tape works, not as a bandage, brace, or a wrap, and does not work by reducing the movement of muscles or joints but encourages greater freedom of movement while supporting joints and muscles.
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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.