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As weather warms and mosquitoes are more prevalent, horse owners are advised to consult their veterinarian to ensure their horse's vaccination status is current.
The only way to find out if your horse is carrying an unhealthy parasite burden is with a fecal exam, ideally in July or August when strongyles are most active.
With a new app available from Zoetis, horse owners can use the Equine Encephalomyelitis Calculator to evaluate the economic risk and expense of not vaccinating against certain mosquito-borne illnesses.
Wet winter weather can bring horse hoof problems, especially if horses are relegated to stalls where bedding and matting is not kept clean and dry and where waste products are allowed to build up.
Maintaining and caring for older horses can become more expensive than caring for younger horses depending on their over-all condition and health.
Veterinarians are warning horse owners that contagious equine metritis or CEM and which was assumed to have been eliminated from the United States until just recently has been making a come back in the US with more than 370 horses in 42 states under feder
Removal of the upper age limit for ColiCare means that senior horses over the age of 25 are no longer excluded and the ColiCare program now offers the same great benefits, including up to $7,500 of colic surgery reimbursement coverage, for life!.
The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is making final its interim rule regarding the importation of horses from countries affected with contagious equine metritis (CEM).
 Learn how proper hoof care by a farrier can prevent most cases of sidebone in the horse's foot by careful trimming and shoeing and what needs to be done in worst case scenarios.