Muscle Loss In Your Horse’s Topline Due To An Unbalanced Diet
When a horse is fed an unbalanced diet, they lose muscle but not necessarily fat. Having a horse with a body condition ...
Equine Topline Evaluation Scoring (TES) Chart
Use this Topline Evaluation Chart, developed by Progressive Nutrition, to evaluate your horse’s topline. Horses are scored on a scale from A-D ...
Why You May Not Know Your Horse Has an Ulcer
Ulcers are a silent yet prevalent medical condition in horses. According to most studies, ulcers are said to be present in 60% ...
Major Causes of OCD Lesions in Horses
The major mitigating factor is nutritional or mineral imbalances in the diet resulting in rapid growth the first year of life. These ...
Laminitis in Horses: The Basics
What is Laminitis? Laminitis is a condition affecting the soft lamina tissue that holds the coffin bone of the hoof in place ...
How Horses Contract EPM (Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis)
Horses contract EPM by ingesting the organism protozoal. Protozoal is a parasite found in infected feed, water, hay, or pastures. The horse’s ...
Surgery Can Be A Treatment Option for Navicular or Chronic Foot Pain
While some horse patients will respond to less evasive forms of treatment to manage navicular pain, those horses with chronic navicular or ...
Medical and Surgical Equine Insurance
Technological advancements are having a tremendous impact on equine health care, but the costs of certain treatments can be prohibitive. A major ...
Equine Loss Of Use Insurance
A variation on mortality coverage is called loss of use, which pays a percentage of the horse’s value should an injury leave ...
Equine Insurance: The Basics
The equine insurance industry is quite different from the insurance industry in the medical, i.e. human, field. Insuring your horse is a ...