Health: Preventative
from the pages of Trail Rider
Healthy Horses Require Regular Veterinary Visits
Do you tend to call your veterinarian only when your hardworking trail horse
is sick or injured? If you do, your horse is essentially on a "sickness
program." To help keep your horse healthy and ready to go year after
year, it's best to put him on a wellness program. Such a program will... | read »
Health: Preventative
from the pages of Rodeo
Navicular Disease
"Navicular
disease" is a very common and dreaded syndrome in the horse. It may be the
most commonly diagnosed lameness in Western performance horses. The diagnosis
and treatment of this problem has been controversial
historically.
The
diagnosis of navicular disease has traditionally... | read »
Health: Preventative
from the pages of Perfect Horse
Horse Vision and Eyesight
Good question. Myths about horse vision litter the ground
like discarded betting stubs after the favorite loses a race. We are told that
horses only see the world in black and white. They cannot see well at night.
They are nearsighted. They must be shown objects from both the left and right... | read »
Health: Preventative
from the pages of Perfect Horse
Coggins Test and Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA)
The perfect horse article "Equine Infectious Anemia Continues
to Kill," was not complete and is somewhat misleading, as anyone who has endured
an outbreak of EIA positives can attest.
Such an outbreak occurred circa 1990 in southeastern
Pennsylvania. EIA as a disease was reported to be 30%... | read »
Health: Preventative
from the pages of Horse Journal
Focus Your Deworming Efforts
Resistance to dewormers is extensive and
officially includes almost all deworming drugs except ivermectin and moxidectin.
However, with isolated reports of possible ivermectin resistance beginning to
appear in horses, as they have in cattle for many years, we're skeptical about
no... | read »
Health: Preventative
from the pages of Perfect Horse
Protecting Your Horse Against West Nile Virus
A study looking at antibodies for West Nile virus in more
than 400 horses on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico found 52% were positive, but
none had ever shown symptoms. In a similar scenario, all the research herd
horses at the USDA Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, eventually tested positive for West... | read »
Health: Preventative
from the pages of Perfect Horse
Monitoring Your Horses Vital Signs
Temperature, pulse and respiration rates in your horse are called "vital
signs" because they are indicators of critical bodily functions. TPR is the
common abbreviation and you'll want to know what numbers are "normal" for your
horse so you can use them for comparison.
Pulse and respiration... | read »
Health: Preventative
from the pages of Perfect Horse
Opinions of Horse Slaughter
There's a number I can't get out of my head: 100,000. That's
approximately how many U.S. horses were slaughtered last year. Of course, many
folks aren't the least bit sentimental about horse slaughter. Horses are livestock, so why
not meet the overseas demand for horse meat? Why let all that... | read »
Health: Preventative
from the pages of Horse Journal
Manage Your Insulin Resistant Horse
The
first time we discussed insulin resistance was in 1999, when we did a field
trial with magnesium supplementation of chronically laminitic and cresty horses
and ponies. We wanted to see if there might be any truth to the "folk lore" that
magnesium can help with laminitis.
What
we... | read »
Health: Preventative
from the pages of Perfect Horse
It's Not Unkind To Cut Your Colt
The thought of owning
a stallion may be appealing, but there's a lot to be said in favor of owning a
nice gelding. Surgically removing a colt's testicles is neither inhumane nor
unkind--so put aside those pangs of guilt. Castration is generally a trouble-free
procedure, and having your... | read »
QUESTION:
We
travel all over with our horses. For years, we’ve heard about equine distemper,
also known as strangles. Please tell us more about the strangles, how to prevent
it, and what to do about it should one of... | read
