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October 10, 2024 by Northwest Horse Source

The Equine Disease Communication Center (EDCC), which provides the vital Outbreak Alerts many of our readers and members appreciate, is conducting a biosecurity survey with support from the USDA. By participating, you’re helping protect horses from infectious diseases and ensuring the EDCC can continue improving this valuable resource for the …

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Equine Nutrition: Feeding for All Life Stages

October 3, 2024 by Press

Join us for an evening with Natalie Sullivan, MS PAS, On Course Equine Nutrition, LLC as she details the specific nutritional needs of horses as they grow and age. Horses require certain vitamins, nutrients, and management styles as they grow from foal to adult to geriatric. You will leave with …

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Equine Wellness: How Light Affects Our Horses

September 27, 2024 by Michael Hipp & Victoria Doulgerakis

Photo by Kim Roe

Knowing How Equines Perceive Light Helps Us Better Understand Their Behavior Light gives us the ability to perceive our surroundings, it shows us beauty and majestic things, and is essential for life itself. Without light nothing would exist that does exist. We cannot stop the sun rising or setting but …

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Business Profile: Fat Pony Feeders LLC

September 21, 2024 by Northwest Horse Source

Images Courtesy Fat Pony Feeders.

Karin Antoni Strives to Help Metabolic Horses How and why did you get started in business? I was gifted a morbidly obese pony in 2012 and I like to say she was one carrot away from a catastrophic metabolic event! The ideal products I needed to rehab my new fat …

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Equine owners advised to act against EEE

September 10, 2024 by Press

Horse owners should take precautions to protect their animals against EEE and other mosquito-borne diseases, according to Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory experts. (Courtney Sacco/Texas A&M AgriLife)

Texas A&M AgriLife veterinarian recommends vaccinations to protect horses from mosquito-borne disease by Adam Russell A Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, TVMDL, expert advises horse owners to take proactive steps to protect their horses after cases of eastern equine encephalitis, EEE, infections in two Houston County horses were confirmed. These are the …

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Media Barn: Notable Books – Beyond Horse Massage

August 23, 2024 by Northwest Horse Source

A Breakthrough Interactive Method for Alleviating Soreness, Strain, and Tension By Jim Masterson In this book, Jim Masterson, Equine Massage Therapist for the 2006, 2008, and 2010 USET Endurance Teams, and for equine clientele competing in FEI World Cup, Pan American, and World Games competitions, teaches a unique method of …

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Equine Wellness: How Horses See Color

September 24, 2024July 11, 2024 by Michael Hipp & Victoria Doulgerakis

Photo Credit Michael Hipp

Certain Colors in a Horse’s Environment Can Affect Behavior By Michael Hipp and Victoria Doulgerakis How horses see color has been a much-studied topic in recent years. Not only does it matter what colors horses see, it matters how they see them. How Horses See Color The retina is the …

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Cover Story: A New Approach to Equine Wellness

July 29, 2024July 2, 2024 by Northwest Horse Source

Massie Vet Team. Photo credit: Shasta Photography by KA

Massie Equine Veterinary Clinic and The Equine Healing Center Unveil State-of-the-Art Facility in Oregon Imagine one place where all your horse’s health and wellness needs are met, where farriers, bodyworkers, and holistic medicine practitioners collaborate and work hand-in-hand with your veterinarian and assist each other easily and readily, and where …

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Preventing Dehydration in the Horse

July 29, 2024July 2, 2024 by Press

With exercise, the body temperature rises. This heat must be dissipated, or the horse will literally “cook”! The body cools itself through the evaporation of sweat, so sweating is especially important for the exercising horse. The sweat contains water and electrolytes, or salts. The main electrolytes are sodium, chloride, potassium, calcium, …

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IGNITE’s Rehab Rounds to feature Northwest Equine Experts

June 25, 2024 by Press

June 24, 2024. New York, NY – Rehab Rounds are one of IGNITE’s most popular programs. In a common veterinary education format, Rehab Rounds examine all facets of an injury or condition affecting a sport horse. Details start with the symptoms and steps taken to get an accurate diagnosis. They …

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