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The existing Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital opened at University of California, Davis, in 1970 and was built to see 3000 patients per year. Its caseload has increased to more than 50,000 cases per year.
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One of the reasons for the study was the fact that previous studies have shown radiographs indicating changes in the neck of younger horses with no other clinical signs of osteoarthritis.
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Pastures are not lawns or golf courses and shouldn’t be managed as such. Mowing should not be dictated by the calendar but instead by the pastures and the needs of the animals grazing on them.
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The parasympathetic stimulation triggered by chiropractic adjustments improves multiple facets of health for any horse.
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Certified Journeyman Farrier Sean Elliott cautions against trimming to get the ‘perfect hoof’, and shares his tips for promoting hoof health and pitfalls to avoid.
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Researchers used a drone to lead free-roaming horses into a corral, and it worked. They say it may provide a lower-stress, more repeatable option of capturing feral horses.
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Geneticist Ricki Lewis reflects on the arrival of the little Przewalski’s horse, who brought back memories of her encounters with his kin in her youth.
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The decision to spray is a subjective process depending on many factors, including weed pressure, invasiveness and toxicity, cost, forage value of the weed and the ability to restore the pasture stand.
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According to one scholar, “there is scant evidence of fire in much of Australia until the megafauna disappeared after the humans arrived”.
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Being a veterinary surgeon specialising in the mouths and heads of horses is not your run-of the-mill profession.
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There is an undeniable growing interest to understand our impact on the physiological and behavioural states of our equine partners,
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Summer sores will occur when flies carrying the larvae deposit their eggs onto an open wound or the mucous membranes of a horse.
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The importance of the so-called “Horse Butchery Site” in England, inhabited by humans nearly 500,000 years ago, is explained by archaeologist Matt Pope.
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A point of continuing concern for many in the industry is whether SARS-CoV-2 is capable of infecting and perhaps causing disease in horses.
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As the US Senate considers a $102 million proposal to reduce wild horse numbers in the west, wildlife ecologist Craig Downer makes a plea for urgent action to save the mustang herds.
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Equine Guelph has been a pioneer in the development of evidence-based, online education for 18 years, with its first course launching in May 2002.
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The Kerr family donates $100,000 to Canada’s Equine Guelph to establish an equine education and community outreach endowment.
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Researchers studied cases from California Thoroughbred racehorses that died from proximal sesamoid bone fractures, and controls that died for other reasons.
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The possibility of using cartilage scaffold to replace defective arytenoid cartilage to help chondritis or chondropathy, a condition often seen in young Thoroughbreds.
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Findings hold out hope that a simple pre-race test could one day identify horses in imminent danger of life-threatening injuries.
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