The Facts about Equine Nutrition

The Facts about Equine Nutrition

Equine Nutrition Facts You Need to Know Poor nutrition can affect your horse’s performance, cause weight gain or loss, or increase the risk of illness or lameness. Fortunately, you can help your horse stay healthy and happy by reviewing a few equine nutrition...
Preventing Lameness: Veterinary Intervention for Ringbone

Preventing Lameness: Veterinary Intervention for Ringbone

Worried That Your Horse May Become Lame Due to Ringbone? One of These Treatments May Help Thanks to a variety of effective treatment options that ease pain and improve mobility, lameness isn’t the only possible outcome if your horse has ringbone. As with so many...
Important Things to Know about Equine Pneumonia

Important Things to Know about Equine Pneumonia

Important Things to Know about Equine Pneumonia Even the healthiest horse can develop permanent breathing problems due to a bout of pneumonia. Recognizing the potential signs of the illness will help you ensure that your horse receives the care it needs should it ever...
Poisonous Plants

Poisonous Plants

By Marcia King May 1, 2001 At a training barn in Washington, two prized half-Arabian horses munched on wood chip bedding that had been delivered to the facility. Moments later, both were dead. Among the chips lay a branch of yew, a type of evergreen that can be fatal...
PPID aka Cushings

PPID aka Cushings

Equine Cushing’s disease, technically known as pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID), is a degenerative hormonal disease of middle-aged and senior horses. To completely understand the disease, a little background in anatomy and hormonal cycles is helpful....