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  • Is Your Horse Pumping Iron?
    In the late 1950's Geritol claimed the iron enriched product would cure fatigue. The Geritol ads said the supplement would cure "iron-poor tired blood". But iron supplementation is not needed, unless the person is anemic due to ...    

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  • Equine Piroplasmosis Disease Investigation Continues
    Canada and a number of U.S. states have imposed movement restrictions or additional entry requirements for horses from Texas after equine piroplasmosis, a tick-transmitted blood disease of equine animals, such as horses ...    

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  • Molly the Pony to Receive Award at 5th Int'l Equine Conference on Laminitis and Diseases of the Foot
    The Fifth International Equine Conference on Laminitis and Diseases of the Foot is pleased to announce that Molly the Pony will be receiving the Spot Courage Award ...    

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  • Identifying Choke in Horses
    Learning to recognize the symptoms and identify the causes of choke in horses,will help you respond appropriately to get your horse comfortable and out of trouble. Choke is when pieces of food get lodged in ...    

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  • All Grains Are Not Created Equal
    You love that smell and look of fresh, plump oats, bright yellow corn and sweet smelling molasses in your feed, and so does your horse. But, what is in your feed? And, how will your horse react to what you feed him every day? ...    

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  • Equine Digestion
    The science of equine nutrition is very different today than it was only a short time ago. As we learn more about how horses digest and utilize nutrients from feeds, and as more feeds become available, our feed choices ...    

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  • Simple Stem Cell Therapy Available to Treat Injuries in Equine
    Traumatic injuries of the tendon, ligament and joints are common in the horse. Unfortunately these injuries can often lead to scar formation, instability, and degenerative joint disease. Whether your horse is a show horse or a back ...    

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  • Humane Society of the United States Releases List of Humane Options for Disposal of Equines
    The Humane Society of the United States released a national list of humane resources for horse owners making end-of-life arrangements for their equine companions. ...    

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  • Management Key to Preventing Heaves in Horses
    Heaves (also called recurrent airway obstruction) is a severe form of bronchitis/bronchiolitis. The airway passages of a horse with heaves are so obstructed by inflammation, ...    

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  • The Way of Horses - Nutrition for All Types
    Caring for horses properly takes money, time and physical labor. I recommend you review your income and expenses. See if you can make some cuts so you can purchase the needed feeds. ...    

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  • AAEP Issues Recommendations for Purchase Exams at Public Auctions
    The Public Auction Task Force of the American Association of Equine Practitioners has developed recommendations regarding the use of radiographic reports as part of the pre-purchase exams ...    

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  • Managing the Effects of Heat Stress
    Understanding the short and long-term effects of hot and humid weather on your animals and their living and working spaces is necessary to preserve the health, safety and performance of your horse. ...    

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  • Managing and Feeding the Weanling
    Caelan (a warmblood) is a weanling with a challenge. Every full sister and brother acquired developmental orthopedic disease (DOD). DOD is the term used to describe ...    

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  • 21 Dead, Pharmacy Incorrectly Prepared Polo Ponies' Meds
    A Florida pharmacy admitted to incorrectly preparing the medication for the 21 polo ponies that died prior to a polo match last weekend. ...    

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  • 21 Dead Polo Ponies All Injected With Vitamin
    Twenty-one polo ponies that would have competed at the U.S. Open polo tournament in Wellington, Fla., suddenly died. According to an article posted at PalmBeachPost.com, all the ...    

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  • Legalized Horse Processing In Montana?
    A bill to allow a horse processing plant in Montana faces just one more step before it becomes law: the signature of Montana governor Brian Schweitzer. Players on both sides of the horse slaughter debate are ...    

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  • Horse Feed Economics
    As feed prices increase, you may wish to become frugal with your feeding practices without depriving your horses of their nutritional requirements. That is, converting from a premium ...    

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  • What Every Horse Wants His Owner to Know
    A diverse group of over 75 horse enthusiasts attended the Equine Emergency & First Aid Clinic on January 10, directed by one of Southern Californias leading horsemanship programs, Cowboy Boot Camp, based in ...    

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  • Equine Confinement
    Your heart is racing; your palms are sweating; your knees are weak...are you having a heart attack? No - you're watching your favorite mare race around the pasture like a lunatic. Her "airs above the ground" are outstanding; her rollbacks ...    

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  • Hygiene Recommendations for Horse Handlers Related to Contagious Equine Metritis
    Strict hygiene should be followed whenever handling breeding mares or stallions to prevent reproductive infectious diseases, including Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM). CEM is spread primarily by breeding, ...    

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  • CEM-Infected Stallion Confirmed in Texas
    The Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) reports that laboratory tests have confirmed that a stallion in Texas is infected with contagious equine metritis (CEM), a highly contagious venereal disease of horses. ...    

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  • Hay first? Grain first?
    Do you feed the concentrate or grain portion of your horse's meal first, followed by the hay? Or do you feed hay first? Does it matter? Yes, it does. When to feed the concentrate depends on which disease you want to prevent... ...    

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  • Feeding the Starved Horse
    The rescue of a starving horse is an opportunity to help a suffering creature. Most of us have seen them - standing at an auction, in a pasture, in the back of someone's barn... and our hearts go out to them. If you decide to take on the ...    

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  • The Evolution of Horse Feeds
    When I started working at the local feed co-op in the late seventies, we offered three horse feeds... all based on protein levels. The 10 percent was for adult horses and ponies; the 12 ...    

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  • Penn Vet's New Bolton Center Breaks Ground for Moran Critical Care Center
    Ground has been officially broken for the state-of-the-art James M. Moran, Jr., Critical Care Center at Penn Vet's New Bolton Center, named in memory of Mrs. Elizabeth R. Moran's son James, ...    

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  • Two Texas Horses Test Positive for EEE
    Texas has joined at least five other states this year in reporting cases of Eastern Equine Encephalitis infection in horses. In Houston County, in the southeast corner of the state, a horse with clinical illness has tested positive ...    

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  • Ban Drugs
    It's time we banned drugs from equestrian events-jumping, western events, rodeo, racing, eventing, dressage. ...    

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  • Your Horse's Health - mean girls?
    "Witchy" behavior in mares is almost always blamed on their heat cycles, but the fault can lie somewhere else. ...    

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  • Does your horse eat like a pig?
    Yes! Then acorns are one porcine delicacy he should avoid. Acorns are seeds or nuts produced by oak trees. There are more than 60 varieties of oaks in the continental United States. The bark, leaves and acorns contain an acidic chemical commonly known as tannin. ...    

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  • Hurricane Ike Update: September 15, 2008
    Animal response to Hurricane Ike continues to be a team effort, as the issues are much larger than the resources of any one agency or association. The TAHC statewide has worked with the livestock industry ...    

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  • Kentucky horse council sponsors clinics at experience the horse
    The Kentucky Horse Council (KHC) announced today the sponsorship of a daylong clinic teaching holistic approaches to whole horse health at Experience the Horse October 4, 2008 in Georgetown. ...    

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  • Prosthesis could spare some horses from death
    A rare medical procedure gives Riley the horse a new life at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, home of the second chances. It's a practice so common in the horse world that it's become a given: if a horse breaks or develops an infection in his leg, there's nothing to be done ...    

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  • LSU Equine Opens Hotline for Horse Owners in Need
    In the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav, the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine and team members of the Equine Health Studies Program have developed a call center in an effort to respond to the potential needs of horse owners in southern Louisiana. The telephone number for horse owners in need ...    

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