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Monty Roberts welcomes a group of combat veterans to his ranch for a weekend of his renowned program Horse Sense & Healing. The film follows three veterans as they experience their first Join-Up® with a horse and begin to build back a sense of trust and a reduction in anxiety.
Join-Up is that moment when a horse (a flight animal) decides it can follow a person because they use a body language that Monty learned from the wild mustangs in Nevada. Monty believes that Post Traumatic Stress is an injury, not a disorder (PTSI not PTSD). For more, join-up.org/horse-sense-and-healing
Read more: Horse Sense & Soldiers with Monty Roberts (50:59)
What you should know about horse genetics - Is it all in the genes?" presented by Dr. Doug Antczak
We are kicking off this season of Cornell's Equine Seminar Series with a fascinating presentation by Doug Antczak, VMD, PhD, the Dorothy Havemeyer McConville Professor of Equine Medicine at the Baker Institute for Animal Health. This seminar will explain the current understanding of the relationship between breeds and review some of the new data on inherited disease and genetic susceptibility to disease. 🐴
Dr. Doug Antczak earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Cornell University in 1969 and completed a degree in veterinary medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1973. Afterwards, Dr. Antczak conducted post-graduate research in England as a Thouron Scholar, and he was awarded a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1978. Since 1979 he has been on the scientific staff of the Baker Institute. In 1992 Dr. Antczak was appointed the Dorothy Havemeyer McConville Professor of Equine Medicine and, in 1994, Director of the Baker Institute for Animal Health, a post he held for 15 years. During his career Dr. Antczak has conducted research in equine immunology, genetics, and reproduction, and he has collaborated widely with scientists in each of these disciplines. Since 1995 Dr. Antczak has been a principal participant in the international Horse Genome Project. 🧬
Cornell's Equine Hospital, the New York State 4-H Horse Program and Cornell Cooperative Extension are proud to host the Equine Seminar Series. Monthly talks presented equine experts on important equine health and management topics. The seminars are free to attend and open to the public.
Read more: What you should know about horse genetics - Cornell Equine Seminar
Caring for your horse's teeth through regular dental floats with a veterinarian can keep them on their best behavior.
“Could dental pain be the culprit for your horse’s behavioral problems?” asked Jeff Hall, DVM, senior equine technical services veterinarian with Zoetis.
A study published in the Journal of Equine Veterinary Science established a link between common equine behavior problems and abscessed cheek teeth. Periapical infections or abscessed cheek teeth are common in horses and will usually induce pain that is displayed in your horse’s behavior. According to the research, half of the cases of periapical infections were diagnosed during routine dental examinations, indicating that horse owners were unaware of the association between undesirable behavioral patterns of their horses and dental pain.
Common behavioral signs associated with cheek teeth abscesses fall into three main categories.
Eating and drinking
Bit-related
General
If your horse is expressing any of these behavioral signs, work with your equine veterinarian to conduct an annual oral and dental examination. Depending on your horse’s age, level of performance and overall condition of the teeth, additional examinations throughout the year may be needed.
“I find that horse owners are sometimes hesitate to schedule annual dental exams because they are unsure about what goes into an exam and what their horse will experience,” Dr. Hall said. “Dental exams are a safe, routine procedure that should be conducted by your veterinarian proactively every year.”
A thorough dental exam can take between 10 to 30 minutes and includes:
During examination, veterinarians use a full mouth speculum. A full mouth speculum is a piece of equipment that fits onto a horse’s head, similar to a bridle, with mouth plates that fit between the front teeth to hold a horse’s mouth open. This allows for a more complete visualization and palpation of most aspects of the teeth.
Equine dental care, horse vaccinations and horse wormers all play an important role in their overall health and wellness.
About the author: This content was originally provided by Zoetis, and Jeff Hall, DVM, senior equine technical services veterinarian for Zoetis, with minor additions included from Valley Vet Supply.
This article originally appeared on Valley Vet and is published here with permission. Valley Vet Supply was founded in 1985 by veterinarians for people just like you - people who want the very best for their four-legged friends and livestock.
All photos courtesy of Valley Vet.
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by Kentucky Equine Research Staff
Many performance horses are exercised at sun-up or earlier. Think about racehorses in training or show horses schooling before early-morning classes. The horses are pulled from their stalls, groomed, and tacked up; trainers and riders discuss the training plan for this daybreak bout of exercise. But does the groom, rider, or trainer think about the horse’s gastric well-being at that time? Maybe, maybe not.
When horses are exercised on an empty stomach, gastric acid splashes onto the squamous, or upper, portion of the stomach. Repeated exposure of gastric acid to this sensitive tissue can increase the risk of gastric ulcers. Prolonging hay consumption into the early morning hours can help protect performance horses from these ulcers. But when do horses eat during the night? Do they consume more hay before or after midnight?
To better understand nighttime feeding patterns, scientists at Kentucky Equine Research recorded horse behavior using two technologies: chewing halters and overhead cameras. They presented hay in various ways (one hay net or two and hay nets in different positions) to determine whether these configurations affected intake behavior.
The researchers outfitted six horses with chewing halters from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. and fed them hay equal to about 1.26% of their body weight while stalled. In the first phase of the study, they placed hay in either one hay net or split the hay between two hay nets, positioning the top of each net parallel to the horses’ withers. In the second phase, they tested two positions of hay nets. One treatment included a hay net at withers height, and the second treatment involved a hay net placed much lower, nearly at ground level.
The chewing halters allowed the team to measure how long the horses spent chewing throughout the night, while the overhead cameras revealed when the hay nets became empty.
“Offering hay in different configurations—one net or two, hay net hung high or low—did not affect time spent eating overnight when a limited amount of hay was offered, as it was in this study,” said Ashley Fowler, Ph.D., director of research at Kentucky Equine Research. Most horses steadily consumed their allotted amount of hay until it was gone, with few horses taking significant breaks from eating.
In this study, the researchers stalled the horses to allow easy camera monitoring. Horses in other living situations may benefit from multiple feeding stations. According to Fowler, “We did not observe any advantage to hanging two hay nets instead of one in this study. In larger enclosures, such as dry lots, using multiple hay nets may encourage horses to walk between foraging locations. Horses that need to lose weight may benefit from increased movement.” Even more movement can be encouraged by placing water sources far from forage stations.
Fowler and her colleagues at Kentucky Equine Research are fine-tuning a follow-up study that will allow free-choice access to hay. “If horses are given free access to hay, we believe they will take more breaks during the night to rest, and there may be short bouts of eating rather than one long eating period, as seen in this study,” she said.
Reprinted courtesy of Kentucky Equine Research. Kentucky Equine Research is an international equine nutrition, research, and consultation company serving horse owners and the feed industry. Our goals are to advance the industry's knowledge of equine nutrition and exercise physiology, apply that knowledge to produce healthier, more athletic horses, and support the nutritional care of all horses throughout their lives. Learn more at Kentucky Equine Research.
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