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Horse Health
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Whoa! What Are You Giving Your Horse?
As an equine specialist with Merial Veterinary Services, April Knudson, DVM, has a special interest in equine gastrointestinal health, infectious disease and lameness. She holds a doctor of veterinary medicine from the University of California-Davis. Belo
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Chico Basin Ranch Opens New Sanctuary
Top50âs Chico Basin Ranch in Colorado, USA, has opened the gates of Ranchlands Horse Sanctuary, offering homes to retired or injured horses. RHS offers owners a place where their horse will spend the rest of its days happy and healthy on open range pas
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Choosing and Storing the Best Hay
For horse owners getting ready for winter months and purchasing hay, this is the time to make sure you are getting the most for your money and that the hay will maintain as many nutrients as possible throughout storage time. Follow these tips for selec
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Cloned Horse to Turn Eight
The world's first cloned horse was born eight years ago on May 28, 2003Â at the Laboratory of Reproductive Technology in Cremona, Italy. Prometea was the successful outcome of 328 attempts to construct and implant a viable embryo.
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Cougar Attacks In Oregon
Aloha residents believe that a cougar roaming their rural neighborhood has killed a horse and injured two others. Bite marks thought to be those of a cougar were found on the neck of a surviving horse. A dead horse was found in the woods with parts
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Amount of Pasture Time Is Important to Horse Health
As warm weather approaches and pastures turn lush and green, gradually introducing horses to spring pastures can help prevent diseases and conditions related to nutrition and diet, including colic and laminitis.
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Animal Aid Abroad Improves Lives of Equines
Animal Aid Abroad Inc.was started in August 2007 in Perth, Australia with the purpose to improve the conditions and treatment of animals in Alexandria, Egypt.
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CSU Pickett Equine Center Reopens
The B.W. Pickett Equine Center on the Colorado State University Foothills Campus, a separate facility from the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, is lifting its temporary closure to visiting horses.
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APHIS Enforcing Horse Protection Act
The U.S.
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AQHA Convenes First Welfare Commission
Recognizing that animal welfare is the single-most important issue facing the equine industry today, the American Quarter Horse Association Executive Committee has appointed the 12-member AQHA Animal Welfare Commission, which met February 6-8 in Dallas.