Canker is fairly rare and only briefly discussed in veterinary textbooks. Most texts suggest that housing a horse in unsanitary conditions causes the disease; however, farms with both the best of stable management and the worst can have horses with Read more…
Even if you dewormed during the summer, fall is the time to deworm your horse with a product that specifically targets bots. This parasite has several stages that affect horses and mid-summer is when horses typically get infested by bots. Read more…
Metal slow feeder These slow feeders are NOT recommended as they’ve been consistently demonstrated to cause tooth damage. Stay away from metal slow feeders; it’s not worth risking your horse’s teeth with so many other good options available. Are slow Read more…
Using petroleum jelly: when applied to the corners of the horse’s mouth, products like Vaseline can help reduce friction. Is Vaseline safe for horses? No, petroleum jelly is not a good choice for conditioning hooves and can actually dry out Read more…
Bots can damage the lining of the stomach or small intestine, interfere with the passage of food, or cause other gastrointestinal disorders. They spend about 7 months there before passing out in the feces. The mature larvae enter the soil Read more…
Horseflies have strong and sharp mouthparts that work like scissors when cutting through the skin to get to the blood. The horse fly bite hurts a lot, much unlike a mosquito or a tick bite. After mating and feeding on Read more…
The larvae of horse and deer flies are fairly straight, segmented, wormlike maggots that are tan, whitish, or brownish. Several fleshy rings circle the body. They are robust, circular in cross-section, and taper at both ends. There are no true Read more…
Horse flies are known anthrax vectors, but their role in the spread of the disease is not clear. The horse fly population in Texas is extremely high this year, which is likely due to extra rainfall. Though horsefly populations may Read more…
One female can lay from 100-800 eggs per year. What is the lifespan of a horsefly? The Horse fly larval stage can last up to a year, and at that point, the larvae dig themselves into the soil in order Read more…
Tabanus sudeticus, also known as the dark giant horsefly, is a species of biting horse-fly. It is the heaviest fly in Europe. Are horseflies in Europe? Worldwide there are about 4400 known species [1, 2] of which more than 170 Read more…