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Horse Health
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Watch Out for Pesky Flies on Horses as Summer Approaches
To protect their horses, owners should have an on-going fly control program based on minimizing the fly population by getting rid of or covering up their favorite breeding environments.
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What Horse Owners Should Know about Rabies
Rabies is a viral disease that occurs mostly in carnivores and bats, but it can affect any mammal, including humans and horses and causes encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) and a variety of clinical signs.
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What To Expect When Vaccinating Horses
Vaccines have side effects due to the immune stimulation they have to create, most of which are mild and transient, but it's important to be able to distinguish between minor side effects and those reactions that warrant a call to your veterinarian.
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What You Should Know about Colic and Your Horse
Determining the severity of your horse's colic is difficult, so it is important to watch your horse closely and notify your veterinarian when signs are recognized that help in an accurate diagnosis of the problem.
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Cold Weather Has an Impact on Your Horse's Health
Dr. Robert A. Mowrey, Extension Horse Husbandry Specialist with My Horse University discusses the effects that cold weather has on horses and gives information that will help you adjust your feeding, watering, and conditioning management practices to insu
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Horse Owners Need To Be Alert When It Comes To Foaling
Many foalings are unattended and most foalings work out well for both mare and foal thus the owner. However in the up to 20% of foalings that donât work out well, it can be emotionally and financially devastating to the owner and potentially fatal for t
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A Billion Reasons to Manage Your Horse Pasture
One high-shedder horse can drop 6+ billion eggs that have the potential to become infective larvae in a pasture over a yearâs time. One low-shedder horse can drop 1.5+ billion eggs that have the potential to become infective larvae in a pasture over a y
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A Celebration of Veterinarians Coming April 2013
The World Organization for Animal Health along with the World Veterinary Association (WVA) is encouraging veterinarians throughout the World to join in the celebration of World Veterinary Day on April 27, 2013. The selected theme 2013 is "Vaccination to p
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Kentucky Equine Survey Data Collection Ending Soon
A critical fundraising threshold was met this month for the 2012 Kentucky Equine Survey, a statewide comprehensive survey of horse breeds. The stateâs equine industry and its supporters, among them organizations, businesses and individuals, responded to
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A Little Attention Now Makes Life Better for Horses
With the coming of the fall season, this is the perfect time to focus on preventative health care for your horse. Internal parasites become active again this time of year as it cools and can proliferate in pastures. Make sure to perform a fecal egg count