Does equine lameness need to be redefined?
Professor van Weeren, commenting in the current issue of the Equine Veterinary Journal (EVJ), suggests that equine lameness needs to be redefined to reflect new digital assessment techniques that use preset parameters to detect gait asymmetries.1 http://o...
Pay Special Attention To Worming Young Horses Says Zoetis
Zoetis Inc. today announced that whether breeding a Thoroughbred for a career on the track or a crossbreed leisure horse for a life as a hack, good worm control is essential to help produce healthy youngsters. Currently, information on best worming strate...
Feeding Horses in Winter
Unless your horse is stabled year-round, feeding horses in winter requires a somewhat different approach than feeding in summer. Lisa Elliott – equine nutritionist at Smart Horse Nutrition – gives us some insights into best feed our horses in wint...
5 tips to ensure your horse stays in excellent condition this winter
As the nights get colder and the frost greets us in the morning, we need to seriously consider the health care of our horses over this festive season. It’s all too easy for horses to lose weight, or develop skin conditions that could be relatively easil...
Mud Rash in horses – all you need to know
With Ireland’s largely mild and usually wet winters, mud fever is unfortuantely all too prevalent in this country. Given that most horse owners have to face and treat it at some stage, it’s important to know exactly what mud fever is, what cau...
New research collection shows how cutting-edge imaging is improving equine head and spine diagnoses
The better vets can examine their equine patients the better they are able diagnose and treat them. The good news is that major progress in imaging of the head and spine is helping to achieve exactly this. The Equine Veterinary Journal (EVJ) has joined fo...
Waterboy Hot Wash – you need this in your life…
Mud… it’s something that us horse owners have to learn to live with. And as much as us we dislike the stuff, our horses love it in equal proportions. Mine seem to set themselves a daily challenge of caking as much mud as they possibly can over as larg...
5 essential ways to ensure your geriatric horse remains in good health
Preventative health care for the older horse Thanks to good nutrition, health and veterinary care, domestic horses can live far longer than would be possible in the wild. It would be relatively common place for horses to live well into their twenties and ...
Equine Infectious Disease Control 2
Following on from our previous article – Equine Infectious Disease Control by Aoife Hand, a fourth year student of Veterinary Medicine in UCD, in this piece, Aoife explores more about the best protocols for vaccination, deworming and certain infec...
Equine Infectious Disease Control
Aoife Hand, a fourth year student of Veterinary Medicine in UCD, undertook some research earlier in 2016 in the area of equine welfare, funded by a bursary from the charity World Horse Welfare. We’re delighted that Aoife has allowed us to publish h...
