Heel Avulsion In Horse Hooves

Hoof Pain In The Horse

Hay is last summer’s grass.  It is a new supplement and it could also be called the original supplement.  The purpose of hay is to add calories to the diet when winter is hard on the horses.  Adding hay in…

Basic Hoof Care For Horses

Traumatic wounds are different from surgical wounds for one major reason. The underlying trauma to the soft tissue complicates healing that is beyond the wound created by a sharp scalpel guided carefully by a surgeon’s hand.

Hyperbaric Pressure In Horses

The Henneke horse body condition score was published by a professor at Texas A&M University in 1983 and is named after him. He wanted to use a simple system for horse owners to score the body condition of…

Wire wounds are difficult because of the underlying soft tissue damage that wants to slough off before the wound can close.

Interference 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 versus closed herds), avoid diseases by quarantining new…

Horses can often destroy a barn or at least the stall they live in using their teeth and hooves.

Calculus is the accumulation of saliva and food debris that hardens and forms a crust on a tooth. Here it is formed on the canines of some male horses.

Soundness Exams In Horses

Identification Of Horses

This topic covers anything that isn’t considered normal on the skin of the horse and is not categorized into another topic.