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Room to Breathe: Proper Ventilation for the Traveling Horse
Respiratory Conditions - Jun 18th, 02
As show and rodeo season starts in full swing, many horse owners dutifully prepare their horses for traveling by wrapping legs with protective covering, checking that the trailer flooring is...
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Can You Ride Your Horse Through a Flu?
Respiratory Conditions - Jun 18th, 02
You wake up after having a fitful night, coughing, wheezing and constantly grabbing for that next tissue. Your chest feels like its in a vice, you can’t eat and you’ve got the blues. What yo...
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Guttural Pouch: Friend or Foe?
Respiratory Conditions - Jun 18th, 02
The unique qualities of the horse can be a blessing or a curse. Sometimes, they can be both. Consider the peculiar guttural pouches. Present in only a few other animals, these structures are...
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Strangles: New Millennium, Same Disease
Respiratory Conditions - Jun 18th, 02
Adopted from the Lloyd's Equine Disease Quarterly Updated July 2005
Strangles was one of the first equine diseases to be described by the early writers of veterinary science. Unfortuna...
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Respiratory Problems
Respiratory Conditions - Feb 20th, 03
Equine influenza or other respiratory viruses (rhinopneumonitis, rhino virus) or bacteria can strike a horse regardless of the time of year. Horses that attend events where other horses are co...
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Strangles: What to Know
Respiratory Conditions - Jun 6th, 05
The first reported case of strangles in a horse was in the year 1251, and it has continued to worry horse owners since that time. Your veterinarian has a wealth of knowledge about strangles in...
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Strangles: A Contagious Equine Disease
Respiratory Conditions - Aug 22nd, 07
What is "strangles?"
Strangles is a highly contagious disease of equids including horses, donkeys and ponies. It is caused by the bacteria Streptococcus equi, often abbreviated ...
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Managing Summer Pasture-Associated Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, an “Asthma-like” Disease of Horses
Respiratory Conditions - May 6th, 08
The horse counterpart of human asthma is called recurrent airway obstruction (RAO). Equine RAO includes diseases characterized by bronchoconstriction (airway narrowing), excessive mucus secret...
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Understanding Equine Strangles
Respiratory Conditions - Jul 22nd, 08
A Bayer HealthCare Animal Health Brochure
Understanding Equine Strangles
Strangles is caused by bacterial infection with Streptococcus equi subspecies equi (referred ...
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