âStudents who participate in the Riders With Disabilities Horse Show spend hours with the horses every week, but once they step into the competition arena with them, it is an experience like no other.â
Dampness in pastures and stalls where organic waste accumulates encourage the growth of bacteria that can infect horses hooves and lead to thrush.
Best management practices with respect to biosecurity will ensure you minimize your risk of spreading disease, and will allow you to more effectively communicate this to others.
Horses and Humans Research Foundation will be hosting two free educational webinars: One on the importance of equine dental care and another one on equine assisted activities.
Because some diseases can be transmitted to humans and people can carry diseases between animals, appropriate precautions should be taken when in contact with sick horses.
During the Fifth International Equine Conference on Laminitis and Diseases of the Foot, a number of researchers presented information about laminitis in horses and the impact the disease has on the horse industry.
In the first reported case of 2012, the New Jersey Department of Agriculture has issued a press release regarding a 3-year-old horse from Burlington County which was euthanized on May 27 after testing positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), a ser
 The Colorado Department of Agriculture has released the quarantine placed on a Douglas County premises after a case of Equine Herpes Virus (EHV-1) was confirmed at the location.
Spring and summer often brings an increase of cases of nasopharyngeal cicatrix syndrome (NCS) which is a respiratory condition seen most often in horses living in south-central Texas and the panhandle area of Florida.
According to Dr. Chris Day of the Alternative Medicine Center in Oxfordshire, England, more and more horse owners are turning to acupuncture when conventional drugs and traditional treatments do not successfully treat various horse ailments.