by Madison Seamans, Dvm | Jan 27, 2016 | FAQs
Nutrition Basics: Protein and the feed tag dilemma. By Madison Seamans MS DVM Did you ever read the tag on a bag of horse feed? For me the tags were confusing because they had lots of numbers, but no pictures. Tags on some products can be downright scary– read...
by Madison Seamans, Dvm | Jan 27, 2016 | FAQs
It’s just a cough? By Madison Seamans MS DVM Respiratory disease in horses, aka “the snots”, “the crud”, “barn cough”, “strangles”, “distemper”, “pneumonia”, “rhino”—all describe symptoms seen in different equine diseases. Some horse health problems are pretty...
by Madison Seamans, Dvm | Jan 27, 2016 | FAQs
They taught us a lot of things in vet school. We spent the first year just studying anatomy and physiology—the thought being if you don’t know what “right” looks like, you can’t know what “wrong” is. It didn’t seem real important at the time. We were all eager to get...
by Madison Seamans, Dvm | Jan 27, 2016 | FAQs
Fat Horses, Thrifty Hogs and Foundered Mares By Madison Seamans MS DVM It’s spring! We know this because the irrigation water is flowing, there’s bugs on the windshield, the air smells like skunk, (I don’t know why skunks feel the need to perfume the air more this...
by Madison Seamans, Dvm | Jan 27, 2016 | FAQs
Winterizing Horses By Madison Seamans MS DVM Fall. You know it is here even if there is no thermometer handy. Horses, with tails over their backs floating over frosted grass, steam forced from flared nostrils like they really are the fire-breathers they think they...
by Madison Seamans, Dvm | Jan 27, 2016 | FAQs
“The bleeding is just about stopped. Is it clotting or is he runnin’ out of blood?” By Madison Seamans MS DVM Although the average thousand pound horse has about ten gallons of blood, there’s really no such thing as “a little” hemorrhage—especially if it is from your...
