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Horse Health
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Senior Horse Education Month Features Arthritis and Pain Recognition
Paying close attention to your horse’s legs, recognizing subtle signs of pain and detecting gait abnormalities are all important.
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Caring for Horses During Hot Weather
You must provide extra care for your horse during hot weather to reduce stress and maintain health and well-being.
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Protect Your Horse from Summer Sores and Fly Discomforts
If summer sores are untreated and proud flesh becomes prominent, horses will lose riding and training time and could be out for months.
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Understanding Reportable Diseases
It is important for horse owners to work with their state animal health officials in advance of an outbreak to know what you can expect if a reportable disease were to occur.
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Proud Flesh on Horses: What You Should Know
Proud flesh is a disfiguring protrusion from the limb of the horse and is accompanied by inflammation and can significantly lower the abilities and aesthetics, as well as the value of the horse.
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Epiglottic Entrapment - What It Means for the Horse and Horse Owner
The majority of horses with epiglottic entrapment without epiglottic hypoplasia are able to return to their original level of activity.
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Confirmed - Fourth Case of West Nile Virus in Horses in California during 2024
West Nile Virus may cause a wide range of clinical illness ranging from mild 'flu-like' signs to encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) that may be fatal to both humans and horses.
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Five Common Horse Health Problems During Summer Weather
Heat of summer combined with seasonal changes can escalate horse health problems, therefore prioritizing measures to ensure horse's physical needs are met is important.
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Two New York Horses Test Positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis and Are Euthanized
Eastern equine encephalomyelitis is caused by the EEE virus, for which wild birds are a natural reservoir, and when mosquitoes teed on the birds the virus can be transmitted to humans, horses, and other birds.
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Bacterial Gut Diversity improves the Athletic Performance of Racehorses
Our study demonstrates that treatment with antibiotics can disrupt the healthy gut microbiome with long-term impacts on health and performance.