Equine Technical Articles
Article published the March 6, 2008:
Abortion in horses may result from a variety of causes. Infectious agents, such as bacteria, viruses or fungi, may attack the fetus or its membranes, resulting in fetal death and expulsion. Other factors attrib...
Article published the February 15, 2008:
Effective trainers understand how horses perceive their world, what motivates them and how they learn. Attributing human qualities to horses can spell trouble for horse owners, handlers and trainers. Understand...
Article published the January 3, 2008:
Techniques for cryopreserving equine embryos have advanced in recent history allowing many practitioners to reliably collect and vitrify embryos on-site or ship embryos to referral centers where equine embryos ...
Article published the January 2, 2008:
Published reports of research into the biochemical role of chromium (Cr) and its essentiality in the diet began to appear in the 1950s. Further pioneering work was reported in the 1960s with great attention pai...
Article published the November 29, 2007:
The history of moving horses from one place to another dates back as far as 3500 years. Some of the reasons for transporting include: shipping horses long distances to participate in military conflicts in far- ...
Article published the November 28, 2007:
Performance horses are often plagued with injuries arising from skeletal systems that are ill-prepared for the rigors of exercise. This creates many issues. Among the major ones is the welfare of the animal. A ...
Article published the November 21, 2007:
The horse industry has not progressed far from the way our grandparents raised horses. The majority of horse stalls are still mucked out using a wheelbarrow and pitch fork. However, there are other ways of doin...
Article published the November 16, 2007:
It can be frustrating watching mares and predicting when they will foal. Mares are usually consistent in their foaling pattern from year to year. Therefore, horse owners and managers should become familiar with...
Article published the October 8, 2007:
Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) is the most widely grown perennial, cool-season forage grass in the United States and the most abundant forage grass in the southeastern US. Tall fescue is adapted to a wide ar...
Article published the August 21, 2007:
Nutrition consultants have been a fact of life in the dairy and beef feedlot sectors of animal agriculture for a long time. In those enterprises where profit margins are slim and production response to feed for...