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Horse's legs running in water
Livestock

Hoof care isn’t all about the hoof

Horse Health: A horse’s lifestyle and diet can make a major difference in hoof health


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The hoof responds to everything it experiences in its environment as well as everything going on within the body. Inseparably tied to the body, a sound foot depends on more than a correct trim. This in no way dismisses or diminishes the importance of a proper hoof trim, rather places the trim in its rightful
Management strategies for using grazing muzzles
Livestock

Management strategies for using grazing muzzles

Horse Health: Grass consumption can be reduced by 30 to 80 per cent depending on the horse or pony wearing one

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The grazing muzzle is a simple, effective, and sensible tool caretakers can use to manage the grass intake of their horses. The grazing muzzle is a basket-like contraption — a piece of headgear a horse wears with the intention of slowing down and reducing grass intake on pasture. The horse wearing the muzzle can breathe
Zane Pickering prepares his heavy horses for their time in the show ring at last week’s Royal Manitoba Winter Fair.
Livestock, Local news

Town meets country at the winter fair

The Royal Manitoba Winter Fair might be an equestrian show, but it 
still attracts an audience of urbanites interested in agriculture

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With his two Belgian horses hovering over him, Zane Pickering entertained questions from passersby. “These horses are pretty majestic, so I guess that attracts people,” said Pickering, as he prepared them for their time in the show ring at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair (RMWF) “We have so many people stopping to look at them
Veterinarians are getting a better picture of what goes on in a horse’s gut by using high-tech tools from the world of human medicine.
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Camera pill to unveil secrets of horse’s gut

A University of Saskatchewan team is using an endoscopy capsule 
to research the workings of the equine GI tract

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Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan are using a tiny camera to learn more about the long, winding and mysterious gut of a horse. “Whenever I talk to students about the horse abdomen, I put up a picture of a horse and put a big question mark in the middle,” said veterinary researcher Julia Montgomery,
Winter is the ideal season for healthy weight loss in horses
Livestock

Winter is the ideal season for healthy weight loss in horses

Horse Health: Hay nets are a good way to prevent horses from overfeeding during the colder months

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Is your horse carrying too much weight? The answer to this question is an important order of business, and best asked at the beginning of the winter season. If the answer to this question is yes then the winter season is the ideal time to implement intervention. Weight loss is far easier in the colder
Vet students at the University of Calgary assess a horse for lameness.
Livestock

Demystifying equine lameness

Horse Health: Overtraining young horses can set the stage for lameness issues later in life

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Lameness has become somewhat of a catch-all term for a broad spectrum of abnormalities in a horse’s movement caused by pain or reduced motion. Though often thought of as a problem of the feet or legs, the roots of many lamenesses are now being discovered to originate elsewhere. These discoveries are important since horse owners
horse teeth
Livestock

Aging horses by their teeth

Horse Health: System is more of a guideline than an absolute determination

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In 1885, Sydney Galvayne published a book in Glasgow outlining a system which claimed to accurately age horses by identifying distinct features of wear on the teeth. Galvayne’s treatise became widely accepted and uncontested amongst horsemen for over a century. The Galvayne name even became memorialized when a distinct groove which travels down the side
If an injury is left to heal as an open wound, hosing the wound for 20 minutes daily encourages further healing. This process can be repeated every day for weeks after the injury depending on the wound’s progress.
Livestock

Bringing the advantages of hydrotherapy to your horse

Horse Health: It is soothing as well as therapeutic when dealing with wounds or injuries

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One of the most valuable allies in the “doctor’s” kit of every horseman ought to be water — simple, soothing, inexpensive, and most often readily available. The application of water, a.k.a. hydrotherapy, to encourage healing brings plenty of advantages in many equine injuries. In spite of the many advancements in veterinary medicine, hydrotherapy remains a
white horse walking on grass
Livestock

The art of longeing horses

Horse Health: There is more to this form of training than going in circles

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At its most basic level, longeing (pronounced lunging) is a seemingly simple exercise. It asks a horse to move in circles around a handler. However, execution of this exercise can be either very beneficial or very detrimental to the horse, depending on “how” it is done. How a horse carries its body as it travels
horses on a pasture
Forages, Livestock

Big bales don’t cut it when it comes to horse hay

Horse industry buys more forage than any other livestock sector, but buyers have exacting criteria

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You could call horse hay buyers the ‘big-little’ customers in the forage business. They are big buyers, but they typically prefer little packages. “The horse industry purchases more forage than any other sector in agriculture,” said Les Burwash, manager of horse programs for Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development. “I’m not saying we use more —

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