Equine

THE CENTRAL EQUINE DATABASE should be fully operational by this summer, Stewart Everett, chief executive of the Equine Register, told the National Equine Forum in London last month. Its primary purpos…

“MUSCLE PAIN AND INJURY are poorly recognised as a cause of lameness and poor performance in the horse,” according to Dr Tracy Turner of Turner Equine Sports Medicine and Surgery in Minnesota. Speakin…

Marion McCullagh concludes her reports on the 2016 BEVA congress with a review of papers on dealing with colic, retained foetal membranes and uterine tears in the periparturient mare

Marion McCullagh continues her reports from the 2016 BEVA congress with an account of some of the presentations on sports injuries and the importance to horses of the pattern of training

Marion McCullagh reports on the "lame or neurological" session at the 2016 Congress of the British Equine Veterinary Association in Birmingham this month.

Corrine Austin of Austin Davis Biologics discusses the significant threat of tapeworm infections in horses and the introduction of a test which uses saliva to diagnose burdens

Exercise arrhythmias and sudden death in horses – a review Cristobal Navas de Solis, Swiss Institute of Equine Medicine, Berne Arrhythmias are a common finding in horses during and immediately after e…

UNRESOLVED STRESS/PAIN behaviour, inappropriate nutrition, inappropriate stabling/turnout and delayed death have been identified in a report published by the University of Bristol as “the four priorit…

WHAT DO, OR SHOULD, VETERINARY SURGEONS USE TO TREAT PAIN ASSOCIATED WITH LAMINITIS? This was a topic for a panel discussion at last December’s convention of the American Association of Equine Practit…

Veterinary Practice reports on this year’s National Equine Forum.

“ALMOST all the unwanted behaviours in horses we see as vets are a consequence of inadvertent negative reinforcement,” according to Gemma Pearson, a senior clinical training scholar in equine practice…

MARION McCULLAGH concludes her reports from the British Equine Veterinary Association congress with accounts of papers on behaviour modification and dealing effectively with complaints

NICOLA RATCLIFFE of MSD Animal Health looks at the various sensitivities of horses and types of pruritus caused by flying and biting parasites and what vets can do about them

MARION McCULLAGH continues her reports from September’s BEVA congress with a review of two of the presentations on infectious respiratory diseases and methods of controlling them

MARION McCULLAGH reports from last month’s congress of the British Equine Veterinary Association on sessions dealing with cancer and a treatment with a promising future

JOHN PERIAM talks to two equine dental technicians about their work and their practice which started in the 1990s and now has about 2,000 horses on the books, both in the UK and further afield

JO GOURLAY of Ceva Animal Health examines some of the considerations which vets and owners can control such as handling and paddock-weaning, and using equine appeasing pheromone in nursing mares

DAVID URCH traces the history of the plant whose herbal healing properties have been known through the ages but which has proved controversial – and reviews some of the current trials on horses

JOHN PERIAM talks to Robrecht Cnockaert, British Showjumping Performance Team vet, about his work in a schedule of events where he gets to collaborate and share knowledge with many practices

BRYAN O’MEARA discusses the investigation of non-healing wounds of the equine distal limb, their causes and their treatments and reports on a new treatment that encourages wound healing