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Horse Health
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Keeping Your Horse Cool During Summer Heat
When working or being ridden, your horse gets hotter much faster than you do and is more susceptible to the negative effects of heat stress.
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Risk-based Horse Diseases - Summer Considerations for Horse Owners
Your veterinarian will help you decide what vaccines are essential for your horse, when they should be administered and at what frequency to help provide optimal immunity.
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Six Ways to Help Horses Stay Safe and Comfortable During Hot Weather
When humidity is high and sweat no longer evaporates to cool the skin, horses are prone to heat exhaustion and heat stroke which can be extremely dangerous.
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Prevent the Heat from Affecting the Health of Your Horse
During hot summer weather, horses and other equines face temperatures that can lead to heat stroke, heat exhaustion, and possible fatalities.
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New Twist Added to Decades of Sea Otter Research and a Parasite Affecting Horses
S. neurona may be most familiar to horse owners, as the cause of equine protozoal myeloencephalitis, or EPM and UC Davis developed the diagnostic test for the disease in horses.
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New Case of Easterm Equine Encephalitis Found in New York
Public Health Dept. warns of eastern equine encephalitis found in Rossie-area horse in St Lawrence County, New York.
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3-D Printing Research Creates Model of Equine Neck for Veterinary Training
The research team tested different types of materials and printers in combination to compare which model worked best to simulate real bone in a horse's neck using ultrasound.
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5 Signs your horse is stressed out!
While scientists have yet to determine the exact line between acceptable and unacceptable stress, handlers can pay attention to signs that their horses aren't coping well with stress.
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1st Michigan EEE Case of Year Found in Clare County Horse
The percentage of deaths is much higher in horses - 90% - than it is in people - 33% - and there is a vaccine for horses, but not for people.
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Being Pregnant in Summer Is No Day at the Beach for Mares
It is the last trimester of pregnancy in most horses when you have to worry about providing the developing foal with adequate nutrition.