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    Category: Disease prevention

    Introduction To Horse 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 …
    doc-t May 1, 2020

    Coggins Test In Horses

    The Coggins Test diagnoses the presence of a past infection of the non-infectious disease called Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) caused by a retrovirus…
    doc-t May 4, 2020
    Entropy

    Entropy As A Disease In Horses

    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…
    doc-t May 1, 2020

    Medications For Horses

    Medicating horses has become easy in an age where pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals are abundant.  Unfortunately their use circumvents two things. …
    doc-t May 1, 2020

    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…
    doc-t May 1, 2020
    Sources for disease

    Sources Of Disease In Horses

    Finding the source of infection and stopping it there often is more efficient than treating the horse after he becomes sick. This includes quarantine…
    doc-t January 11, 2015

    Vaccinations In Horses

    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…
    doc-t March 1, 2015

    Veterinary Certificate Of Inspection For Horses

    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…
    doc-t May 4, 2020

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