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How To Deal With Infectious Bacteria On Your Horse Farm
*It is vital* to accept that the risk of infection increases astronomically with larger numbers of horses having contact with one another. *It maybe impossible* to avoid contact...
Equine Insulin Resistance
*Insulin resistance* is where the body's cells are no longer sensitive to insulin. This means that the sugar in the horse's blood cannot get into the cells...
Cost Effective Ways To Manage Horse Wounds
An inevitable part of owning a horse is dealing with wounds and injuries. As much as we all hate to think about it, they happen and when...
Responses to Nancy's Story
After telling you Nancy's story in our April 9 Thathorse newsletter, kindly Doug and Judith each wrote in to share with us the miraculous survival their horses...
Nancy's Story
Four years ago I bred a delightful black filly, but stupidly I let my mum name her - so Nancy it was! She was as cute as a button with a blaze and three...
Fractures in Horses: What Can Be Done?
For many years now it has been believed that a horse having broken its leg should be put down - that it is the best thing to do. However there have over...
What Do You Need to Know about Barefoot Trimming?
The horse's hoof is a very specialised structure. It is designed to: Resist wear Support the horse's body weight Absorb concussion The hoof is a continuation of modified skin cells similar...
The Causes and Cures of Splints
Equine Splints are unsightly and can cause long term issues to your horses soundness. To manage them well, it is important to learn how to keep splints from becoming permanent blemishes or problems...
How Hard Ground Affects your Horse's Legs
*We know that ground conditions can be hard on our horse's legs, but what effects does it actually have and what are the signs that something is going wrong?* Our horse's legs are...
Top Tips To Managing Laminitis
Inflammation within the delicate structures which connects your ponies pedal bone to the hoof wall is why your pony experiences pain during a bout of laminitis. These bonds are called laminae. As these...
Avocado Poisoning in Horses
With the warm weather of spring finally coming upon us, those who are lucky enough to have avocados also have a quite a hazard on their hands. The leaves, fruit, seeds and bark...
Horse Strangles Disease - What It Is, and How To Treat It
Strangles is a highly contagious disease that affects a horse's lymph nodes in its upper respiratory tract. It is caused by bacteria called Streptococcus Equi. It got the name strangles from the infection...
Form and Function of Joints
An important relationship exists between your horse's joint angle, hoof flight pattern and weight bearing. Get any out of whack and you can end up with lameness. There are three types of joints: *Fibrous...
How to Avoid Abscesses - Ranvet's Hoof Food the best answer!
We recently received a query from one of our Thathorse readers "Hi I was reading about the product Hoof Food that you were advertising. I...
Proud Flesh
If your horse has ever suffered a wound, you may have heard your vet bandy about the term "proud flesh". Below is all you need to know about the problem. Proud Flesh is...
When and What to Supplement
Are You Feeding a Perfect Diet? All performance animals are only as good as their diet allows them to be. A major proportion of animal health...
Tying Up? What you Must Know
Tying-up has many names and can be called exertional rhabdomyolysis (rhabdomyolysis means destruction of skeletal muscle cells), azoturia, set fast, Monday morning disease, or paralytic myoglobinuria. This last name is due to some horses...
What Research Tells Us About Your Seat Position and How That Can Stress Your Horse
WHAT RESEARCH TELLS US ABOUT YOUR SEAT POSITION AND HOW THAT CAN STRESS YOUR HORSE. Protecting and strengthening the horses back is essential to allowing it to get stronger slowly and therefore cope...
The Truth about Leg Bandaging
*Bandaging * Bandaging your horse. Think it's easy? Well there's a lot more to it than meets the eye. A myriad of options open up when you begin to look into the topic, such...
Preparing your Horse for Winter
Hot chocolate, roaring fires and warm mittens keep us warm and cosy on cold winter nights. But what about our horses? How do you help them get through the bitter cold, driving wind...
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