Stable Management
Stop a Barn Fire Before it Starts
Unfortunately, preventable barn fires claim the lives of horses every year. Keep your barn safe with these fire prevention tips:…
Emergency Blanket Repairs
If your horse has managed to rip, tear, shred or otherwise mangle his blanket in the midst of a cold…
Avoid Impaction Colic with Winter Feeding Precautions
With fall comes cold weather that can lead to higher incidence of impaction colic. The most common reasons for this…
Emergency Horse Identification Plan
Approximately 80 percent of the horses found after Hurricane Andrew, which hit Florida in 1992, did not have proper identification.…
Veins and Arteries
Knowing the difference between a cut vein and a severed artery can possibly save a horse’s life: If your horse…
Winter Horse Shoeing
Riding in the snow can present shoeing challenges. What shoes, if any, you choose for your horse is a decision…
Strangles Strongholds
Strangles, also known as distemper, is a highly contagious disease among horses. Strangles in horses is characterized by inflammation of…
Painful Subject
According to an IDEXX Laboratories survey of more than 2,000 horse owners and trainers regarding equine lameness, joint pain is…
Zero In On Soundness
When veterinarians evaluate horses for lameness, they usually provide the owners with written descriptions of what they observe. For example,…
Drug Warning
Researchers at North Carolina State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine are warning that overuse and misuse of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs…