In the wild Mother Nature provides warmth for horses via a long, protective coat that grows in the cold season and is shed when the weather warms up.
If you are a horse owner, you will have seen a similar process at work on your pastured horses. Yet if you keep your horse in a warm [...]
While most horse owners naturally monitor their horse’s water intake during the hot summer months, many relax that [...]
During the heat of summer you may find that your horse is covered with sweat from a long ride even if you take it easy, so what do you do for your horse? Or you may find that after a hard workout in the winter steam is pouring off your horse after [...]
Flies are a general annoyance but they also present a danger to your horse. Whether you are dealing with face flies or the much more serious stable flies, horse flies and even deer flies, you will need to have a pest management plan to combat them.
Probably the first step in any kind of elimination program [...]
The placement and structure of your horse’s eyes is vastly different from a human’s. While we can easily wear glasses to correct poor vision, this isn’t possible for horses.
Also, we are used to a clear field of vision in front of us. Horses, however, have amazing peripheral vision with two blind spots—one directly in front [...]
Cushing’s disease affects humans, cats and dogs. It is also becoming more prevalent in horses. It is regarded as incurable in horses, though it is possible that horses can live reasonably happily for a long time whilst suffering from the disease.
Causes of Cushing’s Disease
The presence of a small benign tumour in the pituitary gland [...]
What is Keratitis?
Fungal keratitis is a serious and painful eye disease that is caused by fungal infection. Under the best circumstances, the disease requires prolonged and expensive treatment; whereas under the worst circumstances, it can result in blindness.
Symptoms
Dull eye, greying of cornea, swelling, phobia of sunlight, closed eyelids, conjunctiva is enflamed possibly with ulcers.
Treatment
The three major goals [...]
How stone bruises develop
Stone bruises generally are the product of your horse’s environment. Traveling on hard, rocky ground can batter your horse’s soles, especially if he’s used to more manicured conditions. But a hard knock against a solid object – a fence rail or a tree root, for instance – can have the same effect.
So [...]
Equine infectious anemia (EIA) is an infectious and potentially fatal viral disease of members of the horse family.
The equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) is categorized as a lentivirus: it contains genetic RNA material, which it uses to produce DNA. This DNA is then incorporated into the genetic makeup of infected cells.
Identified in France in 1843 [...]
What is “heaves”?
Heaves is a chronic, non-infectious airway condition of horses that also is called recurrent airway obstruction, or RAO and was formerly known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD. The disease occurs in horses more than 6 years of age and is the result of an allergic reaction to inhaled particles. The allergens, [...]
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