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Horse Health
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Horse Owners Need To Be Alert When It Comes To Foaling
Many foalings are unattended and most foalings work out well for both mare and foal thus the owner. However in the up to 20% of foalings that donât work out well, it can be emotionally and financially devastating to the owner and potentially fatal for t
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A Billion Reasons to Manage Your Horse Pasture
One high-shedder horse can drop 6+ billion eggs that have the potential to become infective larvae in a pasture over a yearâs time. One low-shedder horse can drop 1.5+ billion eggs that have the potential to become infective larvae in a pasture over a y
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A Celebration of Veterinarians Coming April 2013
The World Organization for Animal Health along with the World Veterinary Association (WVA) is encouraging veterinarians throughout the World to join in the celebration of World Veterinary Day on April 27, 2013. The selected theme 2013 is "Vaccination to p
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Kentucky Equine Survey Data Collection Ending Soon
A critical fundraising threshold was met this month for the 2012 Kentucky Equine Survey, a statewide comprehensive survey of horse breeds. The stateâs equine industry and its supporters, among them organizations, businesses and individuals, responded to
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A Little Attention Now Makes Life Better for Horses
With the coming of the fall season, this is the perfect time to focus on preventative health care for your horse. Internal parasites become active again this time of year as it cools and can proliferate in pastures. Make sure to perform a fecal egg count
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A New Horse Bandaging Solution for Veterinarians
Sox for Horses, Inc. president Ray Petterson is the kind of horseman who has always tried to steer clear of quick fixes in favor of long term solutions.
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Managing Horse Parasites - Think Like a Parasite!
In "Think Like a Parasite - Managing Parasites in Horses, Donna Foulk, Extension Educator in Equine Natural Resources at Penn State cautions, "It is no longer enough to simply pull out a tube of dewormer and treat your horses every eight weeks." Today it
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BLM Announces Nitrates Probable Cause of Mustang Deaths
Toxic chemicals including nitrates may have caused the deaths of 71 mustangs managed by the Nevada Bureau of Land Management on the Nellis Range west of Las Vegas. High levels of nitrates were found in water samples taken from a pond the wild horses us
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Overcoming Fear When Working with Your Horse
When Jamie Price takes jumps, she takes the big ones. Therefore, when it came to the concept of overcoming the natural fears that go [no-glossary]hand-in-hand with riding sports, RateMyRiding.comâs Jamie Price was the natural choice from whom to seek ad
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AAEP 2012 Convention Heads to Southern California
The American Association of Equine Practitioners returns to the West Coast in 2012 for its 58th Annual Convention, Dec. 1 â 5 in Anaheim, California.