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A grazing horse is receiving benefits well beyond just nutrition.
Livestock

Forage the key to healthy horse diet

Horse Health: Marketing campaigns plant doubts about importance of natural diet

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Horses both need forage and horses need to forage. Both aspects are equally nourishing to the horse and both aspects are necessary to fully satisfy the physical, emotional and mental contentment of the horse. Forage comes without a feed label and receives very little marketing attention when held in comparison to the enterprising sales campaigns that market designer
Macie Glenn, kept close watch as her mom, Lacey Marshall, led her mount around the third and final barrel in the timed barrel racing event.
Farmit Manitoba

Horsin’ Around gathers young participants

The event, aimed at the youngest of horse enthusiasts, brought together families for fun and learning

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“Life isn’t always candy, cowboy boots, and horses, but should be,” is an old saying that definitely fit the bill at the Kids’ Horsin’ Around Day in early September in Russell. Fun was the theme of the day, attracting youngsters and families who had one thing in common, enjoying the warmth and companionship of a
The sense of smell of a horse is a powerful way for it to gather information about the world around it.
Livestock

The nose knows: the sense of smell in horses

Horse Health: This often-overlooked sensory system is a major contributor to horse well-being

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Despite horses being described as one of the most perceptive of all animals, research on equine sensory abilities is limited and has mainly focused on hearing and vision. Although olfaction, or the sense of smell, has only been studied sparsely, the highly developed and sophisticated anatomy of the olfactory system in the horse with its long nose,
File photo of a roundworm larva. (Dotana/iStock/Getty Images)
Livestock

Health Canada warns people not to take livestock dewormers

No evidence that drug is effective against COVID-19

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“Concerning reports” of people in Canada seeking out veterinary-grade dewormers for personal use have led Health Canada to formally advise against doing so. News reports in Western Canada in the past week have described increased demand from non-farming consumers for veterinary-grade ivermectin, whether at livestock supply retailers or online. While ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug
As heat stress progresses into heat exhaustion the core body temperature begins to rise and physiological symptoms of distress begin to appear.
Livestock

Taking care of horses during hot weather

Horse Health: You can help your horse beat the heat with a few simple steps

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Extreme bouts of hot weather are particularly stressful for horses and for some individuals it is even more stressful than extreme bouts of cold weather. Thus it becomes particularly important to identify the individual horses that are at a greater risk for heat stress and what factors can provide extra care for them when necessary.
A horse’s relationship to other horses is of primary importance to a horse’s nature and psyche.
Livestock

Preparing the horse to learn

Horse Health: A myriad of factors under the control of the human can affect the horse’s ability to develop

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The Dorrance Brothers, Bill and his younger brother Tom are widely known for their eloquent and effective communication with horses. They are often credited as the original forefounders of the modern-day revolution in horsemanship. The human/horse bond runs deep. Horses seek to appease or make peace with their domesticators and are willing learners. “Thought” leaders
Livestock, Opinion, Other livestock

Gut microbiome critical to horse health

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Immune, neurological and hormonal systems can all be affected Although invisible to the naked eye, the horse and human cannot exist apart from the biology and ecology of their microbiome and the microbiome is being heralded as the next most important bodily system. There is emerging evidence that the gut microbiome with its complex interactions
Lameness can take many forms and come from complex causes.
Livestock

There are many kinds of ‘lame’

Horse Health: It’s a blanket term that can cover a lot of conditions

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Despite their remarkable strength and resiliency horses are highly susceptible to lameness under the circumstances of domestication. In fact lameness is the most common symptom presented to the equine veterinarian. Almost every horse will experience some kind of lameness during its lifetime. Its diagnosis, treatment and collateral losses represent one of the most costly health
Thomasina Arthur and horse Drifter.
Farmit Manitoba, News

Manitoba horse fetches top price at Alberta sale

Thomasina Arthur has been selling horses privately most of her life, but ‘Drifter’ is the highlight so far

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A registered quarter-horse buckskin gelding from the Parkland region was the top-selling horse at an Alberta horse sale this April. ‘Drifter,’ owned by Thomasina Arthur of Rossburn, Manitoba, fetched $20,000 at the eighth annual Top Gun Horse Sale at Ponoka, Alta., which was held as a timed online auction between April 6 and 10. Arthur
Adequate sleep is one of the essential building blocks of a strong immune system.
Columns, Livestock

A war no more

Horse Health: Our understanding of the immune system has evolved past the war on germs analogy

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In horses, as in humans and many other animals, the immune system is a powerful biological force that plays a profound role in maintaining health. Most of the time, it works so effectively that its true value is often overlooked, even minimized. The traditional view of an immune system is as an army poised for

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