The mare has a seasonally poly-estrous breeding cycle. It is seasonal because it occurs during increasing daylight (spring) and does not occur with decreasing daylight (fall and winter). It is…

Wide Hips In Horses

All incisors have a precursor deciduous tooth that is displaced and ejected by the erupting permanent tooth below it.

Insect sensitivity can range in degrees between different horses from mild to severe but is always during fly season.

Inflammation of the lymphatic system can be severe and life threatening and requires immediate medical attention.

Melanoma in horses is usually a benign tumor of the black skin of horses that occurs in many areas of the horse’s body but doesn’t metastasize.

Damage is common to the incisors because one of the primary purposes of these teeth is defense.

[x_alert type=“info” close=”false” heading=”Overview”]Though rare in horses, the chief complaint can be a blue tongue.[/x_alert]

Incisors usually do not decay except after trauma or if EOTRH is affecting the horse.

When a horse is relaxed, their incisors are kept apart as seen in these photos. On average a horse chews 25,000 times a day. If each chew takes 1 second, then all the teeth are kept out of occlusion 71% of the day.

A nasal discharge either from one or both nostrils can come from anywhere in the respiratory tract including the sinus and the lungs and be caused by bacteria, viruses, or allergens.

Supernumerary incisors means there are more incisor teeth than should be there (more than 12 permanent incisors).

The nasolacrimal duct (n-g duct) is a tube that runs through the skull starting at the inside corner of the eye and ends just inside the nostril.

The primary wearing factor of the incisors, including length and pattern of wear, is the movement of the tongue over the occlusal surfaces. This is called stropping.

These picture show trauma of an incisor from about 2 years earlier and the removal of the damaged tooth.