Common Equine Questions and Answers

By Deb Haines

Internal Parasites/ Deworming Information

• Fenbendazole (Safeguard or Panacur) safe to give to nursing mares??? When do I worm the foal? http://www.aaep.org/…/ParasiteControlGuidelinesFinal.pdf
• How often do you worm horses with Pinworms ? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/347280932380345/

External Parasites

• Bot Fly and Treatment https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/351789595262812/
• Ticks ….What treatments are available? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277…
• Can you use fly spray on a newborn foal? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277..
• Treating lice https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/277232046051901/
  
  Drugs
• Banamine…”Masking the symptoms” https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/354378488337256/
• What is the best cost effective anti-inflammatory https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/353874721720966/

Vaccinations

• AAEP Foal and Adult Vaccination guidelines Adult…… https://aaep.org/…/…/Adult%20Vaccination%20Chart_8.12.16.pdf Foal……. https://aaep.org/…/G…/Foal%20Vaccination%20Chart_8.12.16.pdf
• How young is to young for a tetanus shot? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/347326812375757/
• Can a 2 month old colt get a tetanus shot? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/347334462374992
• Nosodes vs. vaccinations? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/347731882335250/
• Why a Rabies short is so important ( video of rapid fox biting horse) https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/358737124568059/
• Rabies guidelines https://aaep.org/…/core-vaccination-guidelines/rabies

Nutrition

• Thoughts on feeding a horse Black oil Sunflower seeds ? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/277239669384472/
• Should foals have grain ? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277…
• Beer and Horses https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/315597322215373/
• Nutrition for Rehabilitating the Starved Horse http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/…/pubs-July2012-bkm-sec.pdf
• Getting a horse to drink enough https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/344774869297618/
• Rye grass staggers https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/324200811355024/
• Would it be safe to freeze baggies of unstabilized rice bran? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/348137562294682/
• Henneke body condition scoring: https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/354161458358959/
• How much hay is to much ? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/358576134584158/

Wounds

• Leg wounds https://www.vet.k-state.edu/vhc/services/equine/timely-topics/leg-wounds.html
• Facial Cuts https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/351741061934332/
• Things You Should and Should Not Put on a Horse’s Wound https://thehorse.com/17070/things-you-should-and-should-not-put-on-a-horses-wound/

Health and Care

• How to take a horses temperature Take the horse’s temperature with a rectal thermometer. The thermometer should be lubricated. Digital or glass thermometers can be used. If using a glass thermometer, make sure it is shaken to read below 95 degrees Fahrenheit before inserting it into the rectum
• What is the normal temperature of a horse? The normal temperature of a horse can range from 99.5 degrees to 101.5 degrees, with an average of 100 degrees. A fever is classified as mild at 102 degrees and excessive at 106 degrees. Exercise, excitement and hot weather raise normal body temperature.
• Blanketing horses
• Body Condition Scoring https://www.facebook.com/groups/277…
• “Sheath-cleaning” how important is it really ? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/318466628595109/
• Is there any evidence based research on the use of splint/support boots for equines in sport? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/350400418735063/
• Why you should scrape the water off your horse https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/315104828931289/
• Tattooing around the eyes of pale horses with black ink really help cut down on harmful sun rays ? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/314628828978889/
• How to tell age of horse by the teeth https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/324488787992893/
• When is it a emergency and should call the vet ? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/351332918641813/
• How to get a urine sample from a mare ? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/351435231964915/
• Max weight for a horse to carry? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/353855675056204/
• What’s the best way to get rid of rain rot? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/353848075056964/
• Retiring an older horse to outdoor board https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/354710188304086/
• Red urine in the snow https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/567116560396780/

Illness/Ailments

• Ten Things You should know about EMS and PPID https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/356379551470483/
• Question Regarding Cancer. https://www.facebook.com/groups/277…
• Possible Sleep deprivation https://www.facebook.com/groups/277…
• DSLD or chronic wear (conformationally caused) related PSD in a young horse? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277…
• Horse bleeding from both eyes? (Bloody tears). https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/346229275818844/
• What is the best stall flooring for horses in general & with COPD horse? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/347115109063594/
• Enterolith https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/351287121979726/
• Could it be Enteroliths? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/354858444955927/
• Possible Tetanus https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/351072852001153/
• Squamous cell carcinoma around the eye https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/353855125056259/
• Positive for West Nile https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/358555867919518/
• Best way to treat hind gut Ulcers? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/358093881299050/
• Borrelia burgdorferi Infection and Lyme Disease in North American Horses https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jvim.15042
• Two horses tested positive for Lyme disease https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/459962861112151/
• Horse has “thumps” https://thehorse.com/…/equine-thumps-are-more-than…/

Hoof/leg problems

• Horse standing too far back on her heels. https://www.facebook.com/groups/277…
• Bisphosphonates (Tildren and osphos) with navicular horses https://www.facebook.com/groups/277…
• Squishy lumps be on my mare’s hind fetlocks https://www.facebook.com/groups/277…
• Should foals have grain ? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277…
• Estrone injections for my weak stifles. http://steinbeckequine.com/pdf/DelayedpatellarreleaseMD.pdf
• Treating whiteline https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/324406241334481/
• What is Ringbone ? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/324190158022756/
• Hoof Abscess https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/351272148647890/
• Foam coming from my horses nostril https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/354760681632370/
• Flexural Deformities http://csu-cvmbs.colostate.edu/academics/clinsci/equine-orthopaedic-research-center/orthopaedic-topics/Pages/flexural-deformities.aspx
• Thoughts on Soft Ride boots vs Shoes for a soft soled lamintic horse https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/459622911146146/
• Laminitis https://thehorse.com/128049/the-quest-to-conquer-laminitis/

Breeding /Foal/castration

• How late can you inject a mare out of foal and how much is it roughly? https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/34712287906281
• Should you castrate a older stallion https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/358176224624149/
• Mare who lactates when she goes into season. https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/460061607768943/

Colic

• Do’s and Don’ts about colic https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/402805786827859/

Behavior

• How to stop a gelding from mounting https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/459999197775184/

Eyes

• Sarcoid next to her eye https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/459857871122650/

Euthanasia

• The process of euthanasia https://www.facebook.com/groups/277077519400687/permalink/324257378016034/

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