Summer time brings tick season to many areas. Keeping horses free from these eight-legged, hard-bodied arachnids known as ticks can be a frustrating task for horse owners. Ticks are small and difficult to see. Powerful jaws make them seemingly impossible
âTick bites can cause irritation and restlessness in horses. Large numbers of ticks on an animal can cause extensive blood loss that could result in potentially life-threatening anemia.â
In the neurologic form of EHV-1, the virus interacts with the horse's blood vessels that supply the spinal cord and this inflammation can cause a stroke-like event.
The Retired Racehorse Project's new arrival exam at the 2019 Thoroughbred Makeover emphasizes soundness, body condition, and microchipping.
All of our transition horses are desensitized to a variety of objects and stimuli and undergo both a ground-based and ridden training program to make them safe and willing partners for their future owners.
Learn about the three joints that make up the stifle, the causes of stifle injuries, and why treatment by a veterinarian along with a sufficient period of rest is important to avoid arthritis accompanied by chronic lameness.
Goodnight offers informative and entertaining demonstrations and clinics, as well as compelling lectures and inspiring keynote speeches that encompass all aspects of riding, training, behavior, and leadership.
âResearchers have been working with FE, gathering and analyzing data on loads acting at the fetlock joint and stresses in the cannon bone by creating a computer generated model using computed tomographic or MRI images of an equine fetlock joint.â
Being able to apply a workable and effective treatment to a defined area of need offers a method to assuage the pain and discomfort that joint inflammatory issues pose in our performance horses.