A Better Approach To Parasite Control
Parasite control is being debated within the profession. The worry of resistance is real. But the truth of controlling parasites lies in how your moth…
Category: Disease Prevention
Accepting Fat Horses – Podcast #064 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
"Is It OK If My Horse Is Fat?" - As long as there isn’t an ice age, the thin horse will survive and thrive longer than the fat horse because the dow…
Aerobic Exercise And Its Role In Insulin Resistance – Rounds With Doc T ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
The cause of insulin resistance (IR) is discussed from the cellular level, and the effect aerobic exercise has in circumventing the blockade of glucos…
Disease Prevention
This subject is important as it could be called financial loss prevention or pain and suffering prevention.
Prevention of disease boils down into …
Entropy And Horses – Podcast #054 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
"Improving The Healthspan Of Horses" - Entropy means the natural and required decrease in energy, moving organized things into disorganized things and…
Entropy As A Disease
I love the word "entropy" because it applies to everyone and everything in the horse world as well as the whole world. It means a gradual decline fr…
EOTRH – The Disease Affecting The Incisor Teeth Of Horses – Rounds With Doc T
Equine Odontoclastic Tooth Resorption and Hypercementosis (EOTRH) is a new disease of horses affecting the health of all horses’ incisors and canine…
Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) And The Coggins Test
The Coggins Test diagnoses the presence of a past infection of the non-infectious disease called Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) caused by a retrovirus…
Get Your Horse’s House In Order – A Magazine Review – Podcast #087 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
"Are More Horse Vets Coming To Help You?" - This podcast reviews a vet school’s economic impact statement and a special Equus magazine about the hea…
Horse Care Old And New – Podcast #083 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
"Horse Care Past and Present" - How long ago is relative to how old we are. To a baby, yesterday seems so long ago. A 24-year-old may think they have …
Horses And The Web Of Influence – Podcast #055 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
"Solving Horse Problems Globally" - In this episode, I go through an email I received from Africa with a connection in the state of Washington here in…
Integrative Medicine With Dr Marty Goldstein – Podcast #085 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
""The Dog Doc" on Integrative Medicine With Horses" - Dr. Martin Goldstein is known as "Dr. Marty" and "The Dog Doc." He earned his veterinary degree …
Internal Parasites
Parasite control has evolved since the first packets of deworming medication showed up in the barn in the mid 1970's. New chemicals, different strateg…
Medications
Medicating horses has become easy in an age where pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals are abundant. Unfortunately their use circumvents two things. …
Memorial Day, Klotho, And The Future Of Our Horses – Podcast # 128 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
"Is Klotho The Future Of Equine Health?" - I start this podcast by describing Memorial Day in America, then tie this idea into what is happening in th…
Molds, Mycotoxins And Soaking Horse Hay – Podcast #031
"Should I Soak Hay For My Horse?" - Reducing the extra body fat on our horses is the best, if not the only, way to improve and eliminate metabolic syn…
Parasite Control In Horses
Pastures are shrinking and the number of horses per pasture are increasing. This leads to a sanitation problem where horses are eating where they de…
Parasites Revisited and Liver Disease – Podcast #022
" Geoff Tucker, DVM On Parasites And Liver Disease" - I attended two meetings recently. One was about parasites in horses and was worth revisiting for…
Should Your Horse Be Turned Out On The Spring Green Grass? – Podcast #005
"Horses On Spring Grass?" - Every horse owner fears the green grass of spring if they have ever had a case of laminitis. In this episode I review an a…
Sources Of Disease
Finding the source of infection and stopping it there often is more efficient than treating the horse after he becomes sick. This includes quarantine…
The End Of A Year – Tetanus In A Horse
This is a story about tetanus in a foal, a bacterial disease that paralyzes horses (and humans) killing them when they can no longer breathe. We vacci…
The Equine Influenza Event Of 1872 And Today’s Corona Virus
Several influenza viruses have severely affected horses in the United Kingdom and Australia since 2003 but the worst reported influenza event in horse…
The Importance Of The Top Line In Horses – Podcast #045 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
"Is My Horse's Top Line Good?" - The top line of horses is the muscles along the back bone from the withers to the rump. It is where the saddle or loa…
Vaccinations
The bottom line here for horse vaccinations is to do them for diseases that will kill your horse, do them judiciously if you need protection (open ver…
Vaccinations For Horses – Podcast #016
"Immunology And Disease History In Horses" - This is not your average discussion about what to vaccinate your horses with. That would be a discussion …
Various Topics – Rounds With Doc T (see excerpt) March 2, 2023 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
1) Pin Firing. 2) Fever of unknown origin. 3) Dental pain. 4) Veterinary versus lay dentists. 5) Medications in equine dentistry. 6) Hock surgery.
Veterinary Certificate Of Inspection
Every horse has the potential to carry with it diseases that no other horse wants to get. To prevent the spread of diseases that could have devastat…
Why Is Sugar Toxic For Horses? – Podcast #125 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
"Horses And Sugar - The Truth" - This podcast is about sugar as a fuel for our horses to use when it's needed to run away from danger. However, I also…
Worms!
How did your parents deworms you? Fecal egg counts, dewormers and natural control are discussed here. The cause of infection and controlling worms is …