Horse Health: What do you want to know?

I plan on posting more often, but I want to give you an opportunity to dictate what I write about. So in the comments section below give me your ideas, your concerns, your desires on what you want to know about your horse as it pertains to its health. It can be traditional or alternative, [...]

10 Reasons Horse Owners Avoid the Equine Dentist

Image by pmarkham via Flickr Thanks to Dr. Geoff Tucker for posting a good piece on equine dentistry and trying to relieve some fears about it – EQUINE DENTISTRY – 10 REASONS WHY HORSE OWNERS AVOID IT I think my favorite is that some owners don’t know there are teeth back there. You would think [...]

Horse Nutrition Protein: My irritation becomes your knowledge benefit

OK this is very irritating – one of my clients used my name to try and get the barn owner convinced that they need change the way they are feeding her horse. Now I would not have minded if the horse owner was telling the barn owner something that I believe to be true, but [...]

Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy for your horse

Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy is a viable alternative to drugs for the treatment of pain and inflammation in horses  due to a variety of causes such as arthritis, surgery, and wounds.  Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy or PEMF affects pain perception in many different ways. It affects calcium ion movement, endorphin levels, acupuncture point stimulation, nerve [...]

Performance Horse Movement – a Team Approach

A horse is built to move. In the wild a horse is a grazer and the herd moves several miles a day in search of food. We as humans use this to our advantage – in the beginning a horse was used as a mode of transportation, because how they are built to move. Today [...]

Horse Health Blogs

OK I have found 3 thats right, only 3 good quality horse health blogs! (well besides this one). I am sure there are more than these three out there but since I have not received any insights from my readers as to what else they might be reading I will go with what I know [...]

Horse Health: Looking for a few good blogs

OK the transfer of this site is almost complete – however I ran into one small problem. My blogroll is gone! A blogroll is a list of sites that are of similar content to the blog that they are listed on or are sites that the author of the blog likes. I had a few [...]

Laminitis (Founder) Article

Laminitis is very painful so much so that a horse with it will barely be able to walk, and sometimes they will not be able to walk at all! For clarification, founder is a laminitis turned chronic. Laminitis is acute inflammation of the lamina which is the structures that holds the hoof to the coffin [...]

Chiropractic on a horse

Today, I was asked to do a chiropractic exam on a small horse, actually it was a P.O.A. I am asked to do chiropractic evaluations and treatments for a variety of reasons, usually it is the horse is not taking a lead correctly or unwillingness to flex or difficulty to collect or slower times in [...]

Genetics and Horse health – The PSSM study

Remember when I wrote about feeding fat for horses – Feeding Fat in Horses not a fad That diet was specifically formulated for EPSM or PSSM…well there is new research on that disease which shows that it has a genetic component, which is very exciting! It may be possible in the future to test for [...]

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