Video: How to Take Your Horse's Vital Signs

Video: How to Take Your Horse’s Vital Signs

Checking your horse’s vital signs is an important way to monitor your horse’s health. Here, Dr. Janice Posnikoff shows us how.

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Janice Posnikoff, DVM

Janice Posnikoff, DVM, was the owner and principal vet at Orange County Equine Vet Services in Orange County, Calif., for over 20 years. She now brings her expertise in sport horse medicine to her hometown of Winnipeg, Canada.

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suzannawindsong says:

June 29, 2008 at 10:26 am

No sound. Picture is too small. is there any way to make it larger? They window for "comment" gets LARGE.... yeah!
Paige says:

July 1, 2008 at 2:28 pm

Thank you for making this video. It has really helped me know what to do in terms of tpr.
samantha says:

August 2, 2008 at 8:27 pm

good info. thanks.
Lisa says:

September 16, 2008 at 4:54 pm

Very good and she is easy to listen to, not boring. A bigger screen would be nice.
Kerry says:

September 21, 2008 at 12:31 am

Congratulations, I have just logged onto your website and looked at the video on horse vital signs, it was excellent. There is so much helpful information, I am signing up for your newsletter.
Sarah says:

September 21, 2008 at 5:04 pm

Excellent video, she is very easy to follow, lots of helpful information.
cherie says:

September 23, 2008 at 7:12 am

A very useful video. Every horse owner needs to know these things.
cole says:

January 22, 2009 at 3:00 pm

it is usefull
Kristen says:

March 29, 2009 at 7:15 am

I liked it a lot. I'm the kind of person that learns by sight, so it was very helpful
jk says:

April 12, 2009 at 12:08 pm

Thanks for this video!

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