To help prevent dermatophilosis from reoccurring, ticks, mosquitoes, and horseflies need to be controlled. Light traps, flypaper, and applying insecticides can help manage infestations. Your horse should not be a left out in heavy rains, or left to walk in Read more…
Stable bandages are used to protect the horse’s legs e.g. in a stable or during transport. Select all the materials (stable bandage and a large piece of padding) and place them within reach. What are stable wraps used for? A Read more…
Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal deposition disease (CPPD) is a form of arthritis that causes pain, stiffness, tenderness, redness, warmth and swelling (inflammation) in some joints. It usually affects one joint at a time, but sometimes it may affect several joints Read more…
Answer: Yes, you can use Permethrin SFR on horses for horse flies. Per the product label: For use on Horses to control:Horn flies, face flies,stable flies, house flies,horse flies, black flies,eye gnats, mange mites,scabies mites, ticks, lice and fleas: Use Read more…
Quick facts. Don’t feed moldy hay to horses. Most moldy hay problems are from mold spores, which can produce respiratory disease in horses. Many of the common mold toxins develop in the field during a delayed harvest. Will mold hurt Read more…
A white horse is actually grey – it’s a colouration that occurs when a gene causes the hair coat to gradually lose its colour. Do white horses turn grey? Graying can occur at different rates—very quickly on one horse and Read more…
Vitiligo is a quite unusual skin condition that causes a lot of consternation to the owners but thankfully is not at all distressing to the horse or pony. It presents as small, focal and generally well-circumscribed white spots as a Read more…
That means spritzing the hay with a hose probably won’t do. A better approach is to place the flake in a hay net and then dunk it in a large bucket of fresh water. To make sure the hay is Read more…
between 4 and 7 months. Weaning is usually done somewhere between 4 and 7 months of age, although some ranches leave their foals on the mares a bit longer. After 4 months of age, the foal’s nutritional requirements exceed that Read more…
The fortunate thing about vitiligo is that it most likely doesn’t bother the horse. One exception: when it appears around the eyes and muzzle, as it predominantly does in horses, the skin might be more susceptible to sunburn, and measures Read more…