A flap of tissue called the soft palate blocks off the pharynx from the mouth (oral cavity) of the horse, except when swallowing. This helps to prevent the horse from inhaling food, but does not allow use of the mouth to breathe when in respiratory distress, a horse can only Read more…
Horses are obligate nasal breathers, which means a horse’s breathing during exercise only occurs through his nose. During exercise, it becomes twice as difficult for horses to move air into the lungs, with 50% of the total resistance in the upper airway originating in the nasal passages. One Breath = Read more…
Horses, unlike many animals, only breathe through the nose and cannot breathe through the mouth. Why can’t horses breathe out of their mouth? The horse only breathes through its nostrils. The nasal passages in the horse are separated from the oral (mouth) cavity. Horses only breathe through their mouths if Read more…
Pulmonary hemorrhage is a rare cause of death in horses. Hemorrhage within the respiratory tract has many causes, including mycosis of the guttural pouch, invasive procedures causing serious trauma to nasal conchae, or lung biopsy. What causes horses lungs to bleed? Lung bleeding in horses, also known as Exercise Induced Read more…
Your horse’s diet contains a lot of fat and fiber. He derives few calories from starch. Some horses need a little more starch to sustain their energy levels, particularly with an increase in workload or in the summer heat. This lack of spark could be remedied simply by adding more Read more…
If you make it so if you feed a skeleton horse a golden apple you give it absorption hearts, if you feed it an enchanted golden apple it gives it permanent. What happens when you feed a horse an enchanted golden apple? Horses. Enchanted golden apples can be used to Read more…
Horse lungs (Charhu) are massive! Human lungs can hold 1.5x more air than an empty milk jug, but a horse’s lungs can hold 14 milk jugs worth of air! Horses are obligate nasal breathers – they can’t breathe through their mouths. Why do horses have such big lungs? Species have Read more…
The magnificent Shire is a draft horse hailing from England! Known as a gentle giant, the Shire holds records for height and strength. Is a Shire a draft breed? Shire, draft horse breed native to the middle section of England. The breed descended from the English “great horse,” which carried Read more…
The term “bleeding lungs” can sound scary. But equine veterinarians are learning that EIPH is common in race horses because it happens during intense exercise, like races. When a horse is experiencing EIPH, it means that some of the blood vessels in the lungs have broken, causing blood to enter Read more…
Lung bleeding in horses, also known as Exercise Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhage (EIPH), is a silent injury that can go undetected by trainers and riders because it occurs deep within the lungs. EIPH in horses occurs when fragile pulmonary blood vessels in the lungs rupture during exercise. What causes internal bleeding Read more…