Veterinary Pathology`s Role In Horse Care
…a variety of causes and many are difficult to detect. So, we can determine the extent and severity of the colonic injury to explain death or justify euthanasia, but we…
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Married with Horses: Paging Dr. Sherlock Holmes
…said more jumping would most likely lead to the severing of Skip’s suspensory ligament, meaning no more walking, meaning euthanasia. The doctors said he would be fine to be turned…
10 Most Poisonous Plants for Horses
…loss is also common. What to do: There is no treatment, and any neural damage is permanent. Euthanasia is recommended if the horse is too debilitated to eat. Yew (Taxus…
Vitamin E and EMND for Your Horse
…weakness, tremors, severe weight loss and eventual euthanasia. Some horses show at least a partial or temporary response to high-dose vitamin E supplementation and low vitamin E levels are commonly…
What Is EIA’
…making the statistics potentially look more rosy than they truly are. Despite this, testing and isolation or euthanasia of EIA-positive horses has reduced the risk of EIA, at least for…
Coggins Test and Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA)
…virus circulating freely in the blood, or to guarantee that it will never happen. In addition to the options Mr. Lichtenstein mentioned (euthanasia or sale for meat), states also have…
Opinions of Horse Slaughter
…a Quarter Horse rescue, retirement or euthanasia fund? Would higher registration costs discourage people from breeding so many horses? Would registered horses ultimately be more valuable to their owners? If…
Equine Infectious Anemia Continues to Kill
…taken with positive horses, generally requiring euthanasia, though sometimes quarantine is allowed. Spread between horses occurs gradually because the major flies that carry it from horse to horse do not…
Potomac Horse Fever Requires Action
…Eventual euthanasia because of laminitis, a frequent complication, accounts for some of the deaths. Pregnant mares may abort. Prevention And Treatment A vaccine is available, but its efficacy is questionable…
New-Generation Joint Products Offer More
…fracture line, extensive navicular demineralization, for whom euthanasia was recommended, was slow to respond but after seven months had complete filling-in of the cyst with bone and only a narrow…