An injury to the coronary band can have long-lasting effects, from a small blemish, to disrupted hoof growth and permanent disfigurement.
Horses coming into work for the season, or for the first time, will start with light exercise and eventually get into moderate, heavy or intense work.
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.
There is a bookshelf in our house where my wife has assembled (in order, mind you), the textbooks from every course she took in university. She sees them as trophies for passing the course. I, on the other hand, have …
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.
Maintaining an equine pregnancy can be tricky; complications can occur with natural and artificial conception, this article highlights causes of the "slip".
Matching training methods with a horse's cognitive capacity is central to maintaining a balanced social interaction between horse and human.
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.
The first step in any investigation into hoof health, is to take a close look at your horse's diet, this can be done with the help of a nutritionist
