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Horse Health
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March Kicks off Vaccination Season! Safeguard Your Equine Partner
Vaccination is an incredible tool for enhancing a horse’s level of protection against infectious disease.
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Top 5 Tips for Helping Lower Your Horse's Colic Risk
Colic, a general term for abdominal pain in horses, is a common and potentially life-threatening condition that can cause severe discomfort and distress got yhr horse.
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Tapeworm Control Important for Grazing Horses as Spring Time Weather Arrives
In young horses, tapeworm infections can cause a potentially life-threatening condition known as intussusception, which is the telescoping of the intestine into itself.
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Non-GMO is Not Necessarily Safe When It Comes To Horse Health
A large body of research on the negative impact glyphosate has on overall well-being exists, so if your horse has health problems that cannot be resolved, his glyphosate intake may be the culprit.
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Equine Guelph Offers Sickness Prevention in Horses Course on World Horse Day - Free Global Registration for One Day Only
Everyone has a role to play in disease prevention for horses and this course covers easy to implement practices for both preventing and controlling disease spread.
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Specialty Surgery Gives Foal the Ability to Breathe Normally
Surgery was necessary if Eclipse was ever going to physically exert herself like other horses because horses are nasal breathers and cannot breathe through their mouths.
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Tips for Meeting Your Horses's Basic Nutritional Needs
Because the horse's colon bends back upon itself numerous times, it leads to greater utilization of the roughage in the horse's feed, but can also cause digestive problems when a horse is not fed properly.
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Evidence of Influenza A(H5N1) Spillover Infections Found in Horses in Mongolia
Because H3N8 equine influenza virus is endemic in many countries, horses should be monitored to prevent reassortment between equine and avian influenza viruses with unknown consequences.
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Keeping Muddy Conditions Under Control in Horse Pastures and Stable Areas
Mud, when mixed with manure, can harbor harmful bacteria creating an ideal environment for thrush, scratches, and rain rot in horse's feet and on their legs.
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Safe Supplements for Metabolic Horses
It takes a little vigilance to build a diet for a metabolic horse but the effort is well worth it to reduce laminitis risk.