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Horse Health
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Protecting Your Horse from Toxic Trimmings during Fall Clean-Up
Being aware of toxic plants in your area can save your horse from being poisoned when you and your neighbors are trimming bushes, trees, and plants before cold weather arrives.
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Potomac Horse Fever: Know the Signs of this Potentially Deadly Disease
âAquatic insects such as damselflies, caddisflies and mayflies might pick up infected immature flukes, and horses grazing near freshwater creeks, rivers or on irrigated pasture can ingest the insects carrying PHF.â
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Now Is the Time to Prepare Your Horse Watering Systems for Winter
âHorses will often reduce their water intake as temperatures fall and the combination of reduced water intake with increased forage consumption during the cooler months makes them more susceptible to health issues.â
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Study Shows Grass Disease in Horses Shares Signs of Human Brain Disorders
âResearchers from the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute and Royal School of Veterinary Studies looked at nerve tissue from horses that had died from equine grass sickness and found the tissue contained proteins that are commonly seen in the bra
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New Cases of Infectious Horse Diseases Confirmed in Widespread Areas
âAll horse owners should have a solid foundation vaccination proram, especially when it comes to the core vaccines, including Eastern equine Encephalitis, equine herpesvirus, and West Nile Virus.â
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Spread the Word Not the Germs – Infection Control Blitz is On for Horse Owners!
âThe information from Equine Guelph includes easy-to-understand whiteboard videos introducing the basics of good infection control practices and how these practices can be applied at home and at the track by horse owners and trainers.â
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Top Tips to Prepare Your Senior Horse for Winter
âEven if your senior horse has weathered previous winters without any trouble, he may need extra care and support to stay happy and healthy this year, and you can take simple steps now to make sure that your senior horse is ready to take on winter.â
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Confirmation of New Cases of West Nile Virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis Lead to Warnings for Horse Owners
âAlthough fall weather usually brings a decrease in the mosquito population, horse owners need to continue to make sure horses are vaccinated against mosquito borne diseases and disease prevention protocols are in place on their properties.â
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Quercetin Exhibits Significant Anti-Inflammatory Properties in Horses
âNumerous equine inflammatory conditions could be alleviated via quercetin supplementation since its impact on reducing oxidative stress may lessen the potential for both equine Cushingâs disease and leptin resistance and also inflammation seen with a
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Horse Owner Alert: Horses Need Supplemental Salt Throughout the Year
âDuring cold weather, salt helps promote enough water consumption by the horse to prevent dehydration and during warm weather, salt replaces that lost in perspiration.â