Make Your Own Horse Care Remedies
…some of the old (and outrageous) remedies horsemen cooked up as cures (“Don’t Try This at Home,”below). As always, check with your vet for diagnosis and treatment, and ask her…
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Abscess Kits Make Life Easy
…put weight on the hoof. Diagnosis. Diagnosing abscesses can be challenging. The rapid onset of severe pain and the severity of the pain itself always suggest abscess, but your veterinarian…
Tips to Keep Riding at Midlife and Beyond
…doctor pulled the reins after a severe osteoporosis diagnosis–she was out of the saddle, but not out of the scene. She’d come to the barn and help groom or whatever,…
Overnight Stocking Up
…early tendon/ligament strains may show filling when they’re stalled, and it may be a signal to get the veterinarian out for a diagnosis before it evolves into something much worse….
Impaction: The Potential Deadly Colic!
Impaction is one of the most common causes of colic. Despite this, there continues to be much misunderstanding about diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. It is especially likely to occur in…
The FEI`s New Drug Rule Is Risky
…continue on, then so be it. Hopefully, he or she has sense enough to get a firm diagnosis and ask about the consequences of continuing the exercise. With our horses,…
The Right College Degree for a Horse Career
…from Developmental Psychology to Human Physiology, and instruction in TR teaching techniques. Equine-Assisted Growth and Development: The use of horses as aids to diagnosis and therapy, a relatively new trend…
Learn to Identify Horse Skin Problems
…two-phase deworming program with ivermectin-one dose to zap the existing worms, another in three to 12 months to finish off those that were developing at the time of diagnosis. Horn…
EquiSearch’s Ask the Vet: Help for a Hoof Abscess
…which were clear for broken bones. The diagnosis was an abscess, and we began the poultice program, plus we had him on stall rest for about six days, and he…
Symptoms of Equine Skin Disease and Skin Disease Product Solutions
…substitute for having a firm diagnosis when your horse has a problem, however skin problems are not life-threatening and minor ones often do respond to medicated shampoos and other treatments…