Category: 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 …

The Coggins Test diagnoses the presence of a past infection of the non-infectious disease called Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) caused by a retrovirus…

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…

Medicating horses has become easy in an age where pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals are abundant.  Unfortunately their use circumvents two things. …

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…

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 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…

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…