Although cooler fall weather has arrived in many areas, horses throughout the USA continue to be stricken with serious infectious diseases.
The push to remove the horses is coming from the Rock Springs Grazing Association, whose members view the mustangs as competition for cheap, taxpayer-subsidized livestock grazing on the public lands in the checkerboard.
Show season is in full swing and many owners are traveling with their horses to events across the country. Keeping horses healthy when traveling can present challenges. Increased travel can increase potential exposure to risk based infectious diseases.
âThe Great American Trail Horse Festival, coming November 5-8, 2015, is the largest trail horse celebration in U.S. history and is open to all trail horses, all breeds, all trail organizations and all disciplines.â
Statewide, Wyomingâs wild horse population levels are far below the high âAllowableâ Management Level of 3,722 wild horses, a number established by BLM land use plans.
"Chemical analysis of tail hairs revealed that Przewalski's horses and domestic horses are year-round grazers. Khulan, on the other hand, switch from grazing in the summer to a high proportion of foliage in the winter.â
At LEGISequine.com, we are committed to providing education to horse owners to help them keep their horses happy and healthy for a lifetime. In this light, we have teamed up with Douglas Novick, DVM to bring you this series of informative articles.
While there is no way to eliminate all risks of disease when comingling horses, vaccinations and good biosecurity measures reduce the risk on the farm and while at competitions.
Downunder Horsemanship, home of clinician Clinton Anderson, is proud to add SmartPak to its [no-glossary]team of sponsors.
Equine welfare organizations are denouncing the agricultural appropriations bill that if passed, would make equine slaughter for human consumption legal again in the US and dump horsemeat that is unfit and unsafe on foreign markets, saying the bill would