By checking horses' feet and legs daily - during grooming, before and after a ride, and the day after a hard workout - lameness will be apparent at an early stage.
When formulating a strength training program for your horse, it is important to determine whether the primary requirement in the muscles is for power or for endurance which will depend on that horse's particular sport or competition.
Learn the 3 major training goals for your horse and how riding up and down hills and walking through water will help condition your horse in all three areas.
âEven if youâre taking the winter off, your horseâs body systems are still on the clock, so make sure to make joint, hoof, digestive and skin health a priority.â
âResearchers have been working with FE, gathering and analyzing data on loads acting at the fetlock joint and stresses in the cannon bone by creating a computer generated model using computed tomographic or MRI images of an equine fetlock joint.â
The 5th annual Equine Industry Symposium which focused on Resilience, Rethinking, Restructuring, and Re-evaluating due to COVID-19 brought horse communities together from around the world.
 A Home For Every Horse, an innovative program from http://equine.com , was a beneficiary of a private advance screening of DreamWorks Picturesâ highly anticipated movie âWar Horse,â directed by Steven Spielberg.
A Texas man has been charged with cruelty to animals involving six horses after parasites, lack of feed, and veterinary care caused the deaths of two of the horses.
Although California currently does not have any cases of Equine Herpes Virus-1, alerts with recommendations for participants at equine events are being issued with the hope of preventing more cases this year. California Department of Food and Animal H
A two-year-old horse located in Louisiana has reportedly tested positive for both Eastern Equine Encephalitis and the West Nile Virus and was humanely euthanized.