A Better Approach To Parasite Control
Parasite control is being debated within the profession. The worry of resistance is real. But the truth of controlling parasites lies in how your moth…
Category: Disease prevention
Horse Disease Prevention – An Introduction
This subject is important as it could be called financial loss prevention or pain and suffering prevention.
Prevention of disease boils down into …
Horse Disease Prevention – Coggins Test (EIA)
The Coggins Test diagnoses the presence of a past infection of the non-infectious disease called Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) caused by a retrovirus…
Horse Disease Prevention – Entropy As A Disease
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…
Horse Disease Prevention – Medications
Medicating horses has become easy in an age where pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals are abundant. Unfortunately their use circumvents two things. …
Horse Disease Prevention – Parasite Control
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…
Horse Disease Prevention – Sources Of Disease
Finding the source of infection and stopping it there often is more efficient than treating the horse after he becomes sick. This includes quarantine…
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 Disease Prevention – Veterinary Certificate Of Inspection
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…
Podcast #031 – Molds, Mycotoxins And Soaking Horse Hay
Molds, Mycotoxins And Soaking Horse Hay - The Horse's Advocate Podcast #031
The End Of A Year – Tetanus In A Horse
This is a story about tetanus in a foal, a bacterial disease that paralyzes horses (and humans) killing them when they can no longer breathe. We vacci…
The Equine Influenza Event Of 1872 And Today’s Corona Virus
Several influenza viruses have severely affected horses in the United Kingdom and Australia since 2003 but the worst reported influenza event in horse…
Worms!
How did your parents deworms you? Fecal egg counts, dewormers and natural control are discussed here. The cause of infection and controlling worms is …