Horse Musculoskeletal Diseases – Dropped Hip
Dropped Hip In Horses
Author: Doc-t
Horse Treatments And Therapies – Bandaging Horse Wounds
Bandaging accomplishes two things: 1) It applies pressure to the area to drive edema out of the limb and 2) keeps dirt from getting a wound if there i…
Ocular System In Horses – Enucleation
Enucleation is the removal of an eye ball. This is done when an eye is in the end stage of chronic inflammation or the active inflammation is too pai…
Horse Musculoskeletal Diseases – Fluid Filling Of The Fetlock And Cannon Bone
Fluid Filling Of The Fetlock And Cannon Bone
Horse Nutrition – Feed By Weight, Not Volume
Horse owners feed by volume which most will call a “scoop.” This is irrational. If we all decided to pick one size for a “scoop,” would th…
Horse Musculoskeletal Diseases – Fluid Fillings Of The Upper Limbs
Fluid Fillings Of The Upper Limbs Of Horses
Horse Skin And Hair – Partial Skin Thickness Wounds
Surgery topics are items that help the horse owner understand the fundamentals behind wounds and surgical lesions in horses. This particular topic ne…
Horse Locomotion And Soundness – Force Equals Mass Times Acceleration
This law of physics explains everything in lameness that is caused by overweight in horses. Like it or not, a heavy horse will become a lame horse.
Horse Injury Prevention – Barn Filth And Disrepair
Having filth is a sign that the owner doesn’t care about the horses in his or her custody. The environment is usually also in disrepair. This is…
Horse Skin And Hair – Puncture Wounds
Puncture wounds can be invisible and inoculate the area with bacteria. If left untreated the infection can kill your horse. A tetanus vaccination is e…
Horse Coat Color – Base Modifiers – The Dominant Gray Gene
Any horse of any color has the opportunity to become gray over time if they have the dominant gene for graying - at least 1 parent needs to be a gray …
Horse Nutrition – Hay
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…
Horse Skin And Hair – Trauma Wounds
Traumatic wounds are different from surgical wounds for one major reason. The underlying trauma to the soft tissue complicates healing that is beyond…
Horse Nutrition – Body Condition Score
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…
Horse Skin And Hair – Wire Wounds
Wire wounds are difficult because of the underlying soft tissue damage that wants to slough off before the wound can close.
Horse Disease Prevention – Vaccinations
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…
Horse Behavior – Barn Damage
Horses can often destroy a barn or at least the stall they live in using their teeth and hooves.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Canine Calculus
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 horse…
Horse Skin And Hair – Abnormal Skin Features
This topic covers anything that isn't considered normal on the skin of the horse and is not categorized into another topic.
Horse Behavior – Cribbing And Other Unusual Addictive Behavior
Cribbing is an abnormal behavior of horses where the horse bites onto an object and pulls against it.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Canine Debris
Calculus on canines are usually uniform, but in some horses, more feed becomes entrapped in the crusty material.
Horse Behavior – Difficult Horse
The difficult horse is one that a person has difficulty handling or working with.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Canine Decay And EOTRH
Canines in some older horses lose their integrity and decay. This is often associated with EOTRH but can also be from trauma.
Horse Locomotion And Soundness – Long Toe, Low Heel
Long toe and low heels in the conformation of the horse hoof, when viewed sideways, is the primary cause of lameness in horses including navicular syn…
Horse Behavior – Fight Or Flight Reactions
In essence, the horse will run away from a threat but if cornered, will fight.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Canine Fractures
These teeth of male horses sometimes are placed against something harder, such as a steel stall bar. The result is fracture of the canine.
Horse Skin And Hair – Aural Plaques
Aural plaques affect one or both ears creating a thick white crust inside the ear.
Horse Behavior – Flehmen Lip Curl
Every horse does this unique gesture with their nose when stimulated to do so.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Large Canines
Canines are used as weapons and some horses have very big canines.
