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Category: Ask The Vet

Ask The Vet: Summer Care for Your Horse

July 15, 2017 Staff Writer Ask The Vet

Answered by Rebecca Stinson, DVM, Reidsville, NC Courtesy of AAEP Question: I am wondering what could be causing my horse to cough. Mister is 20-years-old and has had a cough since about the middle of

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Ask the Vet: Alternative Therapies

June 21, 2017 Staff Writer Ask The Vet

Question: I am an equine sports massage therapist, I get called on to massage horses rehabbing from injuries not just helping to keep them working well for their jobs. What benefits have you seen from

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Ask the Vet: Complementary Therapies and Rehabilitation

May 21, 2017 Staff Writer Ask The Vet

Written by Courtesy of AAEP Answered by, Sara Sammons, DVM, MS, Lavender Equine Rehabilitation & Vet Svcs. Question: My 15-year-old half Arabian gelding has arthritis in his left hock and a tiny bone chip. I

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Ask the Vet: Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM)

April 21, 2017 Staff Writer Ask The Vet

Courtesy of AAEP Answered by Sandi Farris, DVM, Harmony Veterinary Services, LLC Question: If scat is removed from pastures, does it greatly reduce chances of horses contracting EPM? Answer: Pastures can be contaminated with Sarcocystis

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Ask the Vet: Reproduction

March 21, 2017 Staff Writer Ask The Vet

Courtesy of AAEP By, Madison Seamans, DVM, MS, Kuna, Idaho Question: Can I breed any jumping mare by any jumping stallion and expect that the foal will be able to jump the same? What does the latest knowledge about genetics

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Ask the Vet: Hoofs

February 21, 2017 Staff Writer Ask The Vet

Answered by, Rochelle Lewis, DVM, New Zealand Courtesy of AAEP.com Question: For a horse with a significant goose step, right fibrotic myopathy of the semitendinosis, what does the science say about shockwave therapy vs. laser

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Ask the Vet: Foaling Injuries & Complications

January 21, 2017 Staff Writer Ask The Vet

Courtesy of AAEP Question: I have a Palomino mare that had a Cremello foal with blue eyes and light colored skin. All seemed fine until a few days after foaling. The foals eyes turned from

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Ask the Vet: Castration

December 21, 2016 Staff Writer Ask The Vet

Answered by Jennifer Reda, DVM and Stephanie Regan, DVM Courtesy of AAEP Question: I have always gelded my colts at about 5 months of age, before they are weaned, so the mare is with them

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Ask the Vet: General Health

November 21, 2016 Staff Writer Ask The Vet

Coutesy of AAEP Question: What are the pink splotches just below the coronet band on my paint horse’s rear hooves. Yes both hoof walls have them. One is streaked horizontally, and the other hoof is

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Ask the Vet: Joint Injections and Soft Tissue Injury Treatments

October 21, 2016 Staff Writer Ask The Vet

Answered by, Amy Poulin-Braim, VMD, DACVS-LA, Neshanic Station, NJ Question: I would like to ask about ringbone. Are there treatment options for ringbone and if so, how do they work? The history is on a

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Ask the Vet: External Parasites

September 21, 2016 Staff Writer Ask The Vet

Answered by: Carolyn Simmelink, DVM, Redding, CT Courtesy of AAEP Question: Can a dry lot be sprayed with something that will kill ascarid larvae in order to prevent reinfestation? Answer: I am not aware of

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Ask the Vet: Equine Infectious Disease

August 21, 2016 Staff Writer Ask The Vet

Answered by: Tamara Gull, DVM, PhD, DACVIM, DACVPM, DACVM, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve (Veterinary Corps) Stillwater, OK. Question: Can a horse have strangles without the swollen lymph nodes? Answer: While the swollen lymph nodes

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Ask the Vet: What is Shock Wave Therapy?

July 21, 2016 Staff Writer Ask The Vet

Written by D. Reese Hand, DVM Shock wave therapy or ESWT (extracorporeal shock wave therapy) is a non-invasive treatment that can be used as a regenerative therapy to facilitate healing. The therapy, adapted from the

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Ask the Vet: Equine Dental Care

July 1, 2016 Staff Writer Ask The Vet

Written by Courtesy of AAEP As I was bridling my 5-year-old warmblood yesterday, I noticed his right lower canine felt sharper than usual. I swapped sides to look and he’s broken it somehow. He doesn’t

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Ask the Vet: Equine Reproduction – From the Stallion to the Foal

June 21, 2016 Staff Writer Ask The Vet

Answered by, Madison Seamans, DVM, MS, Kuna, ID. Courtesy of AAEP Question: I bought an exceptional stallion 6 weeks ago, but he is cryptorchid with only his right testicle down. I heard that a surgical

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