Wellness

Winter horse care demands a little more organization because of nutritional concerns that need to be addressed as temperatures drop. As the weather turns cold, many horses are ridden less and less. Lower temperatures, wind and wet conditions cause a...

If this should ever happen to you, do not pull the nail or any foreign object which could get lodged into a hoof, without having radiographs first. We recently did quite a bit of construction on our barn, and working with the builders I continued to...

Ready for the Road Trip! (Photo: Kate McIntyre) The height of travel season is upon us and horses will soon be traveling throughout the U.S. and beyond for winter competition. Some horses don’t fare well during a long trip, be it heading south for...

Digital x-ray of enterolith with foreign body (horse shoe nail) inside (Photo: Peterson and Smith Vet Notes, Feb 2013) Enteroliths are one of the many causes of colic in the horse. The word comes from “entero” which means intestine or gut, and “lith”...

For those of you whose horse are in the path of Hurricane Irma, and for any major barometric changes, please read this valuable information from Dr Jim Wright DVM. The great barometric changes, especially in storms like Irma, from my experience,...

That soft, and velvet-like muzzle we love to nuzzle isn’t why clipping a horse’s whiskers is a bad idea. The trimming of a horse's whiskers has been banned in Germany and Switzerland by law (animal welfare act) for many years. It is considered as...

CEO and founder of Omega Alpha Pharmaceuticals, Dr. Gordon Chang discusses the importance of supplements for optimum equine health and hydration. Twenty-two years ago, Omega Alpha Pharmaceuticals, Inc. took the lead in developing a distinctive brand...

Purina® Introduces Outlast™ Equine Gastric Support Supplement Attending the Purina Equine Professional Horsemen event were Claire Hoffman, Cheryl Bess, HorsesDaily's Mary Phelps and Ralph Graham. During the last week of June in 2017 over 150...

Independence Day brings out patriotism, family fun and more than 200 million pounds of fireworks, according to the American Pyrotechnics Association.1 How does your horse react to fireworks? In a recent horse owner survey, which examined the effects...

Could supplementing a horse’s diet with aloe vera gel work as well as commercial products for reducing the effects of gastric ulcers? Researchers from the University of Adelaide in South Australia sought to find out in a recently published study....