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Horse Health
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Important Clues that Your Horse Is on the Verge of a Heat Stroke
Profuse sweating, rapid breathing, and rapid heart rate are indications that a horse is heat stressed and needs to be moved to a shady area, allowed to cool down, and given water to combat dehydration.
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Make Giving Your Horse a Daily Once-Over a Priority
Horses, like people, have a mind/body connection, and, if the body is healthy, the mind works well; if not, the mind suffers also--another good reason to thoroughly check your horse daily.
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Study Shows How Spike Protein Changes Determine the Risk of Viral Outbreaks
Article discusses how a small number of mutations can fuel outbreaks of western equine encephalitis virus.
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Promoting Healthy Equine Venues to Prevent Spread of Infectious Diseases
Compliance with basic biosecurity practices is an important factor in reducing risk of exposure to all contagious equine diseases.
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Recent Study Shows How Money Matters When It comes to Veterinary Care for Horses.
This study shows how a horse owners’ ability to financially tolerate an unexpected expense limits their ability to access health care for their horses.
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Laminitis and Nutrition - Paying Attention to pH for Over-all Horse Health
Using a ration balancer, which will be low in non-structured carbohydrates, is an ideal way to feed proteins, minerals and vitamins to horses prone to laminitis.
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Laminitis and Nutrition - Paying Attention to pH for Over-all Horse Health
When horses go out in the morning and consume large amounts of pasture (now rich in non-structured carbohydrates) they are at greater risk for laminitis.
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Clostridial Myositis in Horses
Educating owners on the risks of intramuscular injections, particularly of flunixin meglumine, may help reduce the chance of clostridial myositis.
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What Do We Know about Colitis in Horses?
By definition, equine colitis means inflammation of the colon and in horses, because they have a very large cecum, technically speaking, it should be called typhlocolitis but for short, we call it colitis.
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Depraved Appetite - A Threat to Horse Health
Making sure that the horse's diet contains all the necessary nutrients for good health appears to be the most important part of prevention of depraved appetite.