A Better Approach To Parasite Control (blog)
Parasite control is being debated within the profession. The worry of resistance is real. But the truth of controlling parasites lies in how your moth…
Category: Disease Prevention Topics
Accepting Fat Horses – Podcast #064
As long as there isn’t an ice age, the thin horse will survive and thrive longer than the fat horse because the downside of excess body fat is the p…
Aerobic Exercise And Its Role In Insulin Resistance – Rounds With Doc T
The cause of insulin resistance (IR) is discussed from the cellular level, and the effect aerobic exercise has in circumventing the blockade of glucos…
Breakdown Of Connective Tissue In Horses – Rounds With Doc T
The journey of how to feed horses correctly started with the epidemic of suspensory ligament disease. The suspensory ligaments are part of the group o…
Colic In Horses – Rounds With Doc T
Colic is the word that describes any pain coming from the abdomen of the horse. The organs causing this pain are usually the intestines, including the…
Disease Prevention
This subject is important as it could be called financial loss prevention or pain and suffering prevention.
Prevention of disease boils down into …
Entropy And Horses – Podcast #054
Entropy means the natural and required decrease in energy, moving organized things into disorganized things and eventually ending in complete chaos. I…
Entropy As A Disease
I love the word "entropy" because it applies to everyone and everything in the horse world as well as the whole world. It means a gradual decline fr…
EOTRH – The Disease Affecting The Incisor Teeth Of Horses – Rounds With Doc T
Equine Odontoclastic Tooth Resorption and Hypercementosis (EOTRH) is a new disease of horses affecting the health of all horses’ incisors and canine…
Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) And The Coggins Test
The Coggins Test diagnoses the presence of a past infection of the non-infectious disease called Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) caused by a retrovirus…
Horses And The Web Of Influence – Podcast #055
In this episode, I go through an email I received from Africa with a connection in the state of Washington here in America. Their results with laminit…
Internal Parasites
Parasite control has evolved since the first packets of deworming medication showed up in the barn in the mid 1970's. New chemicals, different strateg…
Medications
Medicating horses has become easy in an age where pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals are abundant. Unfortunately their use circumvents two things. …
Molds, Mycotoxins And Soaking Horse Hay – Podcast #031
Reducing the extra body fat on our horses is the best, if not the only, way to improve and eliminate metabolic syndrome. But is there a cost to their …
Parasite Control In Horses
Pastures are shrinking and the number of horses per pasture are increasing. This leads to a sanitation problem where horses are eating where they de…
Parasites Revisited and Liver Disease – Podcast #022
I attended two meetings recently. One was about parasites in horses and was worth revisiting for a fresh perspective. The other was about liver diseas…
Should Your Horse Be Turned Out On The Spring Green Grass? – Podcast #005
Every horse owner fears the green grass of spring if they have ever had a case of laminitis. In this episode I review an article written in a magazine…
Sources Of Disease
Finding the source of infection and stopping it there often is more efficient than treating the horse after he becomes sick. This includes quarantine…
The End Of A Year – Tetanus In A Horse (blog)
This is a story about tetanus in a foal, a bacterial disease that paralyzes horses (and humans) killing them when they can no longer breathe. We vacci…
The Equine Influenza Event Of 1872 And Today’s Corona Virus (blog)
Several influenza viruses have severely affected horses in the United Kingdom and Australia since 2003 but the worst reported influenza event in horse…
The Importance Of The Top Line In Horses – Podcast #045
The top line of horses is the muscles along the back bone from the withers to the rump. It is where the saddle or load goes onto the horse. It is an i…
Vaccinations
The bottom line here for horse vaccinations is to do them for diseases that will kill your horse, do them judiciously if you need protection (open ver…
Vaccinations For Horses – Podcast #016
This is not your average discussion about what to vaccinate your horses with. That would be a discussion to have with your veterinarian who knows you …
Veterinary Certificate Of Inspection
Every horse has the potential to carry with it diseases that no other horse wants to get. To prevent the spread of diseases that could have devastat…
Worms! (blog)
How did your parents deworms you? Fecal egg counts, dewormers and natural control are discussed here. The cause of infection and controlling worms is …