Feed’s Effect on Horses’ Dehydration Response
Horse owners are fully aware of the importance of free-choice water in a horse’s diet.
Horse owners are fully aware of the importance of free-choice water in a horse’s diet.
Many horse owners have their hay-buying ritual down to a science.
Most horse owners appreciate the sight of a well-muscled horse, along with the time and effort riders or trainers must commit…
One of the many tools farriers use in shoeing horses is the clips they strategically build into horse shoes.
All horses’—from young to old, high-performance to sedentary, rescued to syndicated, and everywhere in between—gastrointestinal (GI) tracts function in the same manner.
Nonetheless, obesity remains a problem for not only horses but the people who care for them as well
Horsemen around the world continue to debate whether horses should wear shoes or be barefoot.
Flexion tests are used routinely in horses with subtle or imperceptible lameness, to exacerbate the problem and make it apparent to the observer.
As part of the study, researchers also tested a method by which to detect the condition
Osteoarthritis (OA) remains one of the most important yet incurable causes of lameness in our equine athletes.
Over the past several years, researchers worldwide have stressed the importance of having a properly fitting saddle.
A nutritional supplement fed immediately after osteochondral fragment removal surgery could help reduce the amount of post-surgical inflammation in the joint
...there’s a telltale sign practitioners can assess to gauge a horse’s likelihood of recovering from a laminitic episode: the perfusion (or the amount of blood that fills) the hoof’s corium…
The American Paint Horse Association is excited to announce a partnership with LubriSyn as the Official Joint Supplement of APHA. The new partnership will offer product and expert advice to… Read more »
At the 2013 Western Veterinary Conference, held Feb. 17-21, in Las Vegas, Nev., one veterinarian presented research behind a certain type of probiotic supplement for horses….