Although a number of parasites can infest horses, there are a few that are more common — bots, strongyles, ascarids (roundworms), tapeworms and pinworms. Large and small strongyles, ascarids and tapeworms can present the greatest health risks. Can you get Read more…
Wormers that are advised by the manufacturer to be as safe for use in pregnant mares include (but not limited to) Equimax Elevation, Equimax, Equest Plus Tape Gel, Razor, Imax Gold, Promectin Plus, Ammo and Strategy T. When it comes Read more…
Stable your horse for 48 hours after worming to allow the wormer to take effect and prevent viable eggs from being deposited on the pasture. Do horses need to rest after worming? You don’t need to keep your horse stabled Read more…
How accurate are fecal egg count tests? According to the Handbook of Equine Parasite Control (Martin K. Nielsen, M.K., Reinemeyer, C. R., 2018), “… a fecal egg count performed by someone capable of recognizing a parasite egg generally has a Read more…
Cobb-Douglas is homothetic preferences: It shows the neutral good, which represents the horizontal axis to demand quantity of the goods. The indifference curve also shows the horizontal lines. How do you know if a production function is homothetic? A function Read more…
A = total factor productivity. α and β are the output elasticities of capital and labor, respectively. What is A and B in Cobb-Douglas production function? Its parameters a and b represent elasticity coefficients that are used for inter-sectoral comparisons. Read more…
The first 15 minutes of a disease outbreak are the most critical in reducing the spread of infection. Quarantining new horses on your property is also the best way to prevent new infections from spreading to your resident horses. Do Read more…
Western Equine Encephalitis is a viral illness that is transmitted to people and horses through the bite of an infected mosquito. The virus is an alphavirus and is closely related to Eastern Equine Encephalitis and Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis viruses. How Read more…
“Put the horse in a stall next to new barn mates, or in a paddock or pen near their pasture; after a few days you can start to integrate the relocated horse into the herd.”Also, don’t be in a hurry Read more…
They simply like the smell of horse manure Dogs have an insane sense of smell which is said to be between 10,000 and 100,000 times better than ours. We have around 6 million smell receptors in our nose, dogs have Read more…