Pet Factsheets

Horses Health

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Abortion

Aggression

All about anaesthesia

All about castration

All about horseshoes

All about worms

Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection

Aspiration pneumonia

Azoturia - 'Tying-up'

Babesiosis (piroplasmosis)

Bandaging - the dos and don'ts

Basic equine anatomy

Bladder rupture

Body condition scoring

Bog spavin (tarsocrural synovitis)

Bolting

Botulism

Box-walking

Bruised sole

Bruxism

Bucking

Buying a horse

Cancer in horses

Capped hock

Caring for the older horse

Caring for your horse before and after surgery

Caring for your horse's feet

Caring for your horse's feet - the barefoot option

Chest trauma

Choke - oesophageal obstruction

Choosing a vet for your horse

Clicker training

Clipping your horse

Colic - a serious belly ache

Common eye problems

Common skin problems in the horse

Common training problems - how to deal with them

Complementary therapies

Contagious equine metritis (UK/Europe)

Contagious equine metritis (USA)

Coping with the loss of a pet

Corns

Crib-biting / wind-sucking / wood-chewing

Dental care

Diagnostic imaging

Diagnostic tests

Diarrhoea

Disease control (UK/Europe)

Disease control (USA)

Dourine

Emergencies - when to call the vet

Emergency first aid for wounds

Epistaxis - nosebleed

Equine Cushing's disease

Equine gastric ulcer syndrome

Equine grass sickness

Equine herpesvirus - EHV

Equine infectious anaemia - EIA

Equine influenza - 'flu'

Equine metabolic syndrome

Equine passports (UK/Europe)

Equine passports (USA)

Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis

Equine viral arteritis - EVA

Essential equine management

Euthanasia - saying goodbye

Examining a horse at an auction

Exercise - keeping your horse fit and happy

Exercise intolerance / poor performance testing

Explaining pet loss to children

Failure of passive transfer

Feeding the older horse

Feeding the young horse

Fitting a saddle - why it's so important

Flexural limb deformities

Foaling - what you need to know

Fostering

Fractures

Headshaking

Heart disease

Heart murmurs

Identification - keeping your horse safe

Insurance - do I need it?

Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist protein (IRAP) therapy

Investigating heart problems

Keratoma - foot tumour

Kissing spines

Lameness

Lameness examinations

Laminitis - the facts

Leg splinting

Lice infestation

Ligament injuries

Lumps and bumps

Melanoma - skin tumour

Mud fever

Nail bind / nail prick

Navicular bursitis

Navicular disease

Neonatal problems

Nerve blocks - the lame horse

Normal parameters and vital signs

Nutrition - keeping your horse on top form

Obesity - the fat horse

Osteoarthritis - the facts

Osteochondrosis

Pasture management

Penetrating foot injuries

Pinworms - an unwanted irritation

Platelet rich plasma (PRP) therapy

Poisonous plants - what to look out for

Preparing your mare for breeding (UK/Europe)

Preparing your mare for breeding (USA)

Pre-purchase examinations (UK)

Problems with clipping - how to deal with them

Problems with shoeing - how to deal with them

Proliferative enteropathy

Proud flesh

Quittor

Rain scald

Rearing

Respiratory problems in your horse - not a good wheeze!

Rhodococcus equi infection

Riding and road safety (UK)

Ringworm - a fungal infection

Rotavirus

Routine health care

Samples - how they help your vet

Sarcoids - what you need to know

Seasonal pasture myopathy - atypical myopathy

Seedy toe

Severe equine asthma

Sheath washing - to wash, or not to wash!

Sidebone

Stem cell therapy

Strangles - 'Streptococcus equi infection'

Subsolar abscess - pus in the foot

Suspensory ligament injuries

Sweet itch - an itchy business

Taking your horse abroad

Tendon injuries

Tetanus - 'lockjaw'

The pregnant mare - health and well-being

Thrush and canker

Traveling with your horse - bad weather conditions

Traveling with your horse - loading problems

Traveling with your horse - safety first!

Vaccination protocols and safety

Vaccinations - essential protection (UK/Europe)

Vaccinations - essential protection (USA)

Vices - why and how to manage them

Weaving

Weight loss

West Nile Virus - what owners should know

Whistling and roaring

Worm control