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Tying-Up Syndrome

The medical term for tying up is rhabdomyolysis-which means skeletal muscle (rhabdo) breakdown/damage (lysis). Tying up is characterized by muscle stiffness and pain, sweating, blowing,...

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Winter May Mean Horse Choke

If you've ever seen a horse choke, you're not likely to forget it. Choke occurs when food gets caught in the esophagus, not in his airway,...

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Your Horse and Diabetes

We're familiar with diabetes in humans, but not many people know that horses can also have diabetes and blood-sugar problems. "Insulin resistance" is sometimes called "pre-Cushing's"...

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Your Aging Horse: Respiratory Health

[/caption] By Christine Barakat, EQUUS Magazine The average horse takes about 17 breaths per minute. By the time he reaches age 20, he will have inhaled and exhaled approximately 178,704,000 times. That’s...

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Generalities on Certain Drugs in Horses

In dealing with horse owners and their concepts of treating horses over the last 45 years, I have noticed some common tendencies that I'd like to address....

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Do You Expect To Keep Feeding Hay?

[/caption] Late in 2010, Active Interest Media, which owns this publication, conducted a survey among about 1,200 readers of its various magazines and websites, and one asked, "Please rank the following...

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Smart Hay-Buying Strategies

Quality forage should be the foundation of any feeding program, but stocking your barn with good hay doesn't come cheap. Hay prices rose in 2008, thanks...

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Feed Basics for Pregnant Mares

Pregnant mares are in fact "eating for two," as they say. Your mare has her own feed requirements, but then you must add to that the requirements...

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How to Feed for Healthy Young Bones

Whether you're raising a pedigreed foal with promise of showring glory or you're bringing up a homebred baby destined for recreational trail riding, developmental orthopedic disease (DOD) can...

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Send Your Horse To Fat Camp

We've become so accustomed to seeing shiny, sleek-coated horses with lots of extra flesh that we easily forget they're actually fat. Some people actually use the phrase,...

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