Vital Signs

Never wait until an emergency strikes to learn to take vital signs. You should know what your horse’s normal resting heart rate, breaths per minute and body temperature are. This is called TPR (temperature, pulse and respiration) and …

A horse sporting a swollen leg? What is causing it? As big and strong as horses are, their legs are quite sensitive and subject to a variety of problems.

Transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes, the viruses can cause encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, impacting the central nervous system.

This article will provide readers with some valuable information to help perform both intramuscular and subcutaneous injections.

In this article readers can get a better understanding of how to develop an effective deworming program and avoid drug resistance.

Bandaging your horse’s limb when there is a wound does more than keep it clean. The bandage can prevent further trauma to the area, and more.

In order to avoid over-medicating our horses and to prevent resistance to deworming medications, deworming programs are being recommended.

Improved diagnostic techniques offer veterinarians a clearer view of this complex, debilitating disease known as navicular syndrome.

Disruptions to the microbial population can lead to a variety of ailments. While researchers work to understand this largely uncharted territory, you can help keep your horse in good health by feeding a carefully balanced diet.

As herbivores, horses consume …

C. difficile infection is sometimes a tricky illness to treat because it is treated with antibiotics, which can further upset the gut flora.

Being the active – yet fragile – animals they are, horses are subject to a variety of lumps and bumps, such as bone spavin, hives, and more.

As your horse moves through his senior years, he'll likely need changes in his environment and routines to keep him happy and healthy.

Few, if any, areas of scientific study have captured the imagination of medicine and the masses alike as definitively as that of stem cell research.

Proud flesh is an exuberant growth of granulation tissue, which is highly fibrous, full of small blood vessels and designed to help in the healing process.

This article highlights joint supplements and how they can be a very useful strategy for protecting your horse against cartilage damage.