"You’ve owned your senior horse for a long time. You’ve been through ups and downs with him, and it’s clear as day when he’s not feeling his best. But do you know how well he can see and if he’s developed ocular disease? Recent study results...
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — His name was Champ, but he was no champion. Severely underweight and riddled with ulcers, the brown horse had been rescued from a northern Colorado feedlot when Kassidy Webber first met him in 2014. Then a high school sophomore living in Arvada,...
It’s called “swamp cancer” but acts more like a fungus. The disease has killed a wild pony at the popular Chincoteague Island in Virginia and sickened several others. The Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Co., which helps care for the wild horses, said on its Facebook page that...
On the banks of France's Arve river, the horse the Germans could not kill faced his most dangerous mission yet. The star-foreheaded Warrior, who arrived on the Western Front in August 1914, had survived four years of shells and bullets, come through the horrors of Ypres,...
OAKLAND, Calif. - California’s attorney general says federal officials who want to offer hundreds of wild horses up to slaughterhouse buyers would be breaking state law if they put the animals up for auction. Over the last month, the U.S. Forest Service has been rounding up...
By Drew Marine | October 11, 2018 at 9:18 PM CDT - Updated October 11 at 9:18 PM LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) - Wild horses at Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk have been the source of controversy for years, JRTC and Fort Polk...
The Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) has provided an update on equine infectious anemia (EIA) cases in Dallas County horses, the Equine Disease Communication Center (EDCC) reported Sept. 19. There have been three cases of EIA in Dallas County, Texas, horses since June. “On June 13,...
PHOENIX — If you’ve seen a wild horse roaming the Salt River area in the past year or so, it might have been Ducey. That’s right, there’s a Salt River wild horse named after Arizona’s governor. The Salt River Wild Horse Management Group — a nonprofit organization...
Researchers have found that a particular protein found in the intestine is upregulated in chronic cases of laminitis, strengthening that case that chronic inflammation of the laminae in the hoof might be associated with changes in the endocrine and immune systems. Texas A&M University researchers Samantha...
Researchers in Britain have confirmed that donkeys don’t cope well with wet, cold weather, and they need extra protection in winter. This is the first study of the hair coat properties of donkeys in any environment and indicates that donkeys are less well adapted to the...