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Fertility: Wild and Domesticated Horses

...maintaining normal equine behavior—thereby conserving band fidelity and harem stability—are being explored. On the flip side, owners of domesticated horse all too frequently suffer the opposite problem: they’re unable to...

Horses with Anhidrosis Require Careful Management

...skin. In normal horses, the area around the injection site will rapidly produce sweat. Anhidrotic horses exhibit a slow, weak, or nonexistent sweating response. Some degree of anhidrosis may affect...

Considerations When Moving Horses to a Different Climate

...the winter training months, fly to Germany for a dressage lesson, or shuttle to the opposite hemisphere for a second breeding season, owners need to think about ways to minimize...

Strangles in Horses

Strangles is an infection caused by Streptococcus equi bacteria. Lymph nodes in the horse’s head and throat are the most common sites of infection. Most horses recover, although some fatalities...

Putting the Brakes on Horse Weight Gain

...hipbones. Thanks in part to advances made in feeding management, veterinary care, parasite control, and dentistry, compassionate horsemen can fatten horses safely and with relative ease. But when is it...

Supporting-Limb Laminitis Investigated in Horses

...broken leg. Supporting-limb laminitis is a common occurrence in horses that sustain a leg injury that causes them to bear weight almost exclusively on the opposite leg. The research will...

Rational Approaches to Equine Parasite Control [PDF]

Advances in Equine Nutrition Volume IV, Chapter 5: Pathological Conditions – Rational Approaches to Equine Parasite Control

Rhizoma Peanut Hay for Horses

...health. Horses on all-forage diets should be supplemented with a high-quality vitamin and mineral product. *Vasco, A.C.C.M., K.J. Brinkley-Bissinger, J.M. Bobel, J.C.B. Dubeaux Jr., L.K. Warren, and C.L. Wickens. 2021....

Managing Laminitis in Horses: Sand Bedding and Trimming

...a score on the Obel scale, which classifies clinical signs of laminitis-related pain into four categories. Researchers gave both stallions a grade III classification, meaning the horses were reluctant to...

Arginine Supplementation of Broodmares: Research Review

...mares during estrus. Journal of Equine Veterinary Science 33:373-374. 3 Bobel, J., and L.K. Warren. 2013. Lymphoproliferative response in broodmares supplemented with arginine. Journal of Equine Veterinary Science 33:331-332. 4...

Predicting Foaling in Mares: Skin Temperature Fluctuations

...said. * Müller, A., S. Glüge, B. Vidondo, A. Wrobel, T. Ott, H. Sieme, and D. Burger. 2022. Increase of skin temperature prior to parturition in mares . Theriogenology 190:46-51....

Almond Hulls: Soluble Fiber for Horses

...Rodiek. 1992. Feeding value of diets containing almond hulls. In: Proceedings of the Equine Nutrition and Physiology Society 12(2):99-102. 2Hansen, T.L., E.M. Rankins, J.M. Bobel, M. McKinney, T.J. Hackmann, and...

Ertugliflozin for Managing Metabolic Horses

...from 7.9 to 1.3 on the 12-point modified Obel laminitis score system; Body weight significantly improved; and No adverse clinical effects were identified, although 19% horses had polyuria and polydipsia,...

KER intern feeding a stalled horse a flake of hay.

Understand and Maximize Fiber Fermentation in Horses

...performance.” * Hansen, T.L., J.M. Bobel, E.M. Rankins, L.C. Sanchez, and L.K. Warren. 2020. A pilot study exploring the relationship between digesta retention time in the equine gastrointestinal tract and...

New Stallion Makes His Mark at Lynward Park

...the type and breed of the horses in our draft, and we also apply the same logic on farm. For example, the Alfred Nobel’s were tall, leaner types that we...