It can be difficult for the amateur --- and sometimes even for the professional horse breeder --- to distinguish between the two different color...

A major part of a horse's diet is hay or pasture. A horse weighing 1000 pounds will eat about 500 pounds each month. A horse needs roughly 28 acres...

What Does that Mean and Why is it Necessary? So what does it mean to float a horse's teeth? I'm sure you've heard this a time or two (if you...

So, you have a barn and thought that it would be nice to fill it with boarders and make a living? Well, it's possible, but there are many things that...

One of the worst possible nightmares for a horse owner is to see the glow of a barn fire in the night sky. The real tragedy of most barn fires is...

Introduction Outbreaks of neurologic Equine Herpes in the United States, combined with reports of natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, point...

Equine influenza is a highly contagious viral respiratory disease. Equine influenza is caused by a virus similar to although not the same as, the...

Most Americans, as compared with Europeans, die without a will.  Even in cases involving extensive wealth I am amazed to see the difficulty...

Addison's Disease: A disease in which an insufficient amount of corticosteroids are secreted by the adrenal gland; also known as...

Infectious diseases are those diseases that horses can get from each other, or via a vector, such as a mosquito, which may transmit the disease from...