Summit Examines Injury Databases, Post-Mortem Programs
Approximately 200 people attended the summit and an international audience watched the entire program on a live video stream.
Approximately 200 people attended the summit and an international audience watched the entire program on a live video stream.
Thermography presents a noninvasive, safe, and cost-effective diagnostic imaging modality (on average, $350 for a whole horse scan and interpretation) that is a valuable complementary tool in equine health care.
Remember that tricky thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, probably of a herd of horses, you put together as a kid?
To achieve optimal weight management of horses, it is important to determine how much energy (calories) they need per day.
Osteochondral lesions that show up on young horses’ radiographs might appear worrisome, but the veterinarian behind a recent research review concluded that surgery isn’t always necessary, or even recommended. And in many cases the worry isn’t necessary either.
Stroll past any magazine display or newsstand and chances are some health or lifestyle cover is boasting of new ways to boost your metabolism.
Using what seems like a high-tech version of the child’s game “Operation,” some veterinary students can now practice giving equine joint injections using a simulator constructed of foam, rubber bands, nylon tights, and an electric buzzer.
The training and racing of 2-year-old Thoroughbreds has always been a source of debate in the racing world due to concerns that exerting young skeletons might make horses more likely to injure themselves.
A horse with slightly asymmetrical feet is nothing out of the ordinary.
In an advisory issued March 22, the CHRB said it has concluded a number of such products contain zilpaterol, which is prohibited in racing. Zilpaterol is a beta-2 agonist used to promote weight gain in livestock
Equine eye injuries are ugly and usually become bigger problems if not quickly and correctly diagnosed and treated.
A native of Caldwell, Idaho, he began his career in 1979 at Les Bois Park, in Garden City, Idaho, and was a leading rider in Washington before moving to California and establishing his name on the south California circuit.
At the 2012 Hagyard Bluegrass Equine Symposium, held Nov. 1-4 in Lexington, Ky., Ryan Ferris, DVM, MS, an assistant professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences at the Colorado State University (CSU) Equine Reproduction Laboratory, discussed managing fungal endometritis in broodmares.
The best way to tell if your mare is truly in foal is via an early pregnancy test.
For these cases Gregory employs a W-shoe custom made for the individual horse and hoof.