With one of the best veterinary medicine programs in the world, Michigan State University, through their Extension program, makes up-to-date information and programs available to horse owners nationwide
Because the stability of paddock areas are crucial to your horseâs health, it is essential to maintain quality paddock footing to avoid diseases, injury, or death.
âInformal testing, over a three-week trial period, has shown The Hock Shield⢠can successfully stay up, without turning on a horse's legs, more than 90% of the time providing safe and reliable protection and healing from sores and abrasions.â
"Officials in Polk County Florida reported its first confirmed case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis in 2016 this past week, saying the eighteen month old unvaccinated Quarter Horse had not been off the property in at least 6 months.â
âThe North Carolina Department of Public Health has confirmed the death of a Cumberland County horse identified as having Eastern Equine Encephalitis.â
âThe principal damage caused by the bot is to the stomach lining of the horse and in extreme cases, bots can cause a stomach rupture or fatal colic if they block the stomach valve to the small intestine.â
With the discovery of the Schmallenberg virus in Britain in late January it is ever more likely that African horse sickness (AHS) may invade the UK according to veterinarians. AHS kills as many as 90% of those horses it infects, and is spread by the same
Learn about your horseâs body by looking down at your own!
The lessons give in-depth coverage of the rescue and sanctuary challenges that the wise volunteer will want to know about: status of the U.S. horse rescue industry; questions to ask before donating to a rescue or sanctuary; and ways to assist rescues and
Thanks to VA medical centers and private horse groups across the USA, hundreds, if not thousands of veterans are benefiting from rehabilitation programs involving therapy that focuses on the close bond between horse and rider.