Horse Expo Pomona is underway now through Sunday, February 7-9,2014, with over 300 exhibits offering the latest horse related products and services.
Equines entering the custody of adoption, rescue, and transition centers spend an average of 257 days receiving care.
The purpose of the National Equine Health Plan is to protect the health and welfare of the U.S. equine population and protect the economic continuity of business in the equine industry.
Horses on CTB + pergolide had better resolution of the abnormal PPID coat but horses on CTB alone or CTB + pergolide had much higher ACTH levels than on pergolide alone, indicating CTB can interfere with effects of pergolide.
Horses are very susceptible to the neurotoxins produced by the botulism bacterium. These bacteria are present in soil, and in decaying animal carcasses.
Is it too late to vaccinate my horse? April Knudson, DVM, is an equine specialist with Merial Veterinary Services. She has a special interest in equine gastrointestinal health, infectious disease and lameness. She holds a doctor of veterinary medicine f
Like people, horses may be taken down by a bout with colitis. This condition can strike any horse, any time, and any place. Famous race and performance horses have struggled to win their fights with the disease and it can lead to other dire consequences s
Wildlife managers, along with The Humane Society of the United States, applaud official registration of the first contraceptive vaccine for horses. The HSUS had sponsored the move by the Environmental Protection Agency after more than two decades of trial
Donated vaccines protect horses from eastern equine encephalitis, western equine encephalitis, equine rhinopneumonitis, tetanus, West Nile Virus and rabies.
âDiscovering that different coat colors reflected different light waves influencing fly attraction prompted new questions: What kind of light would bounce off the striped body of a zebra and how would that affect biting flies?.â