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Weight Loss

 Learn when you should be concerned about weight loss in your horse, the many possible causes, and the ways of preventing unhealthy weightloss through sound horse management, accurate diagnoses of diseases, and careful attention to nutrition.

International Conference on Wildlife Fertility Control Comes to Colorado Springs with American Wild Horse Campaign as Sponsor

The international conference convened professionals and scientists to discuss humane wildlife management when the state is determining how to improve stewardship of wild horses during a deadly disease outbreak.

BLM Begins Wild Horse Gather in Rio Blanco County, Colorado Today 09/01/2023

The current appropriate management level for wild horses in West Douglas Herd Area is zero animals since nearly all forage and water sources are located on adjacent private lands.

Tevis Cup Challenges Horses, Riders, and Researchers

The Western States Trail Ride, popularly called the Tevis Cup Ride, is the oldest modern day endurance ride In 1955, the late Wendell T. Robie with a party of five horsemen rode the Western States Trail from Squaw Valley to Auburn, proving that horses co

How Does The Environment Affect Strongyle Development? What Horse Owners Should Know

”It has been demonstrated that 80% of the pasture contamination by strongyle eggs is from the 20% of the horse herd that are high shedders while the 80% of the horses that are found to be low shedders account of only 20% of the contamination.”

Atresia Ani

This rare congenital disease of newborn foals results in a blocked digestive tract. In some circumstances, surgical intervention can be successful in clearing the blockage.

Published: Canagliflozin for Control of Refractory Equine Hyperinsulinemia and Laminitis

Kellon and Gustafson suggest that once daily administration of the SGLT2 inhibitor canagliflozin corrected hyperglycemia, and reduced insulin to normal or near normal levels.(. . .)

Critical Research into Laminitis in Horses Discussed

Leading scientific researchers in the field of  Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS) gathered in Boston in September under the direction of Dr. Nicholas Frank, Professor and Chair of the Department of Clinical Sciences in Large Animal Internal Medicine of the

Fescue Toxicity

Learn about Fescue Toxicity and why mares that consume large amounts of endophyte-infested tall fescue can suffer from a number of reproductive problems that can also affect the foal both before and after birth.

Degenerative Joint Disease

Learn about Degenerative joint disease, a type of osteoarthritis that is one of the most common causes of lameness in horses, how it develops when the cartilage protecting the bones of the joint is destroyed, and how to prevent and treat the disease.

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