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What should I do for my horse with a cough and/or runnynose?
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...
How often should my horses’ feet be trimmed and/or shod. What is “normal”?
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...
Is there a link between fat, cresty-necked horses and founder/laminitis?
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...
Do I need anything special for my horse this winter?
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...
What do I do if my horse is cut?
“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...Books For Sale
