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Health: Emergency
Riding Your Horse at Night
Riding your horse in the dark is perfectly safe if you take the right precautions. Your horse has excellent night vision and would look forward to a night time ride. But there are some guidelines to considering when riding in the dark. * Riding along highways is dangerous at night, so be extra... | read »

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Dangers of Bute in Horses
Bute, short for phenylbutazone, is probably the most widely used drug in horses. Bute is an inexpensive, highly effective treatment for inflammation and pain that can be injected intravenously or given orally to horses as a powder or paste. However, like any drug, bute has its... | read »

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Health: Emergency
from the pages of Rodeo

Internal Abscess in Horses: What it is and what to do about it
The condition diagnosed as an "internal abscess" is that of a chronic walled-off infection usually located in a horse's abdomen or chest cavity. The general symptoms that a horse with this condition presents with are weight loss, less than a normal appetite and general malaise.... | read »

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Horse Health Issues
Horse health issues may be common, and therefore, you need to know how to "read" your horse, what types of horse health situations are true, get-the-vet emergencies and what you should or shouldn't do. If the horse has a gaping wound or is flat out on the ground, it's obvious you need the... | read »

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Health: Emergency
How to Bandage Your Horse's Legs
Wrapping legs is a skill that every horse owner should have, and preferably before they actually need to do it. There's no need to routinely wrap a horse's legs, but situations that call for it include: Protecting and covering an injured area Providing warmth to stiff/old tendon, ligament... | read »

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What Popping a Splint Means for Your Horse
Splints are enlargements that can occur along the length of a horse's splint bones, two slender bones that begin under the horse's knee and continue down the cannon bone. These enlargements, often referred to as the horse "popping a splint" because the splint bone looks larger on the leg,... | read »

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Health: Emergency
Sand is Cause of Horse Colic
Sand is a cause of horse colic, and horses kept on fine, sandy soils are at risk of developing colic related to eating sand. Fortunately, some feeding and management techniques can minimize the risk of sand-related equine colic. Sand colic basically means intestinal pain related to the... | read »

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Health: Emergency
Cooling out a Hot Horse
Heat and exercise can lead to serious problems with overheating. Most people know a horse should be cooled out after exercise, but there's a lot of misinformation and missing information on how it should be done. Follow these guidelines for effective cool-downs: Always walk for the... | read »

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Health: Emergency
from the pages of Rodeo

Splints and Splint-Bone Fractures in Horses
"Splints" are a very common entity involving the splint bone in horses, usually the medial one of the front legs of the horse, that are usually only a cosmetic problem. Splint-bone fractures and injuries in horses are an entirely different entity. Splints are not so obvious or easy to identify, and... | read »

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Health: Emergency
from the pages of Trail Rider

On-The-Road and On-The-Trail Horse Vet Care
Question: We tend to travel for horse trail rides in remote areas. In the event that we need emergency veterinary care while on the trail, it's not always easy to find. Do you know of a website that we can search for equine vets in the area that we travel? Any help would be appreciated. -... | read »

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Bumps and Lumps: First Aid
Every now and then, your horse will bash into something, hit his hipbone, or bang his knee. Most of the time, these are minor injuries that will go away on their own.

A lump or bump is caused by trauma to an area that causes underlying swelling and possibly a broken blood vessel under... | read

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