The quarantine of race horses at Rideau Carleton and other prudent biosecurity measures were introduced to protect the horses and limit the possible spread of disease.
When ACTHA designed the four obstacles intended to test the talents and training of the trail horse, great thought went into something that could be done safely but still reveal the horse in question's true abilities.
Horsemanship courses and clinics at a ranch are perfect for singles, couples, friends, the whole family and with veryone can getting involved, you'll learn new skills and better understanding of equines.
In young horses, tissues (and tendon would be included also) have much greater ability to adapt while young and have the capacity to adapt; once mature, they lose that ability.
Geneticists in the US have identified a mutation that is associated with equine cerebellar abiotrophy (CA), a neurological condition found mainly in Arabian horses. The potential causative mutation involves two overlapping candidate genes that are
Horses being the big, active animals that they are often sustain injuries or develop diseases that affect their ability to move in a free, painless, and coordinated way.
If your horse is beginning to look rather scruffy and is losing hair instead of beginning to put on a fine winter coat, the reason may be a case of seasonal alopecia also called seasonal flank alopecia since it often affects the flanks of horses.
A Lake Charles veterinarian, Ted Shope of South Bayou Animal Hospital, reports that he has seen more than a dozen cases of Eastern equine encephalitis in the past three weeks, and the only horses that are still alive are the two that were vaccinated.
Chronic inflammatory small bowel disease has an increased prevalence in sport horses. The disorder is associated with intermittent colic, weight loss, poor performance and anemia. Chronic inflammatory small bowel disease seems to have a predominance in dr
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