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Horse Health
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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
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New Case of Strangles Reported in Florida Horse
"Separating or quarantining a horse at the earliest signs of strangles is important because the disease is highly contagious and may be passed from one horse to another via nasal secretions and pus from ruptured abscesses in the lymph nodes.â
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Feed a Miniature Horse as a Horse – With Some Caveats!
âThe vast majority of experts agree that a miniature horse retains the horse phenotype and its metabolic characteristics and are scaled down versions of their full-sized friends with the same nutritional requirements.â
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New Case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis Confirmed in Horse in Florida
âEastern Equine Encephalitis virus attacks the central nervous system and unvaccinated horses are very susceptible to the infection with the disease appearing within five days after a mosquito transmits the virus to the horse.â
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New Case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis Confirmed in New York Horse
âThe Wayne County Public Health Department received notice of a positive report for Eastern equine encephalitis in a horse in the town of Galen in Wayne County, according to the New York State Department of Health Arbovirus Laboratory.â
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Horse Digestive Problems and How They Relate to Horse Anatomy
âColic is simply a general term meaning abdominal pain and by limiting the proven risk factors as much as possible can go a long way toward keeping a horseâs GI tract operating smoothly.â
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New Cases of Infectious Horse Diseases Reported Nationwide
âGetting statistics for mosquito-borne diseases in horses is difficult, and state officials say they expect up to four unreported cases for each confirmed case of West Nile virus and Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis, making the actual impact larger than