Health & Education
We all want the best care possible for our horses. The Heath & Education section covers both Learning Institutions, Organizations as well as many sources for equine assistance including Veterinarians and Farriers.
For those who want a to formally study horses, the Education section includes College Riding, Equine Studies, and Veterinary Schools. Learn about the wide variety of horses in the Horse Breeds section. Supplements and Treatments Therapy are also included in the section.
Everyone can learn from Fine Art and there are some specialty Museums that might surprise you.
Horses as a therapy partner enrich the lives of the disabled. These facilities are listed in our Therapeutic Riding section. To help children and young adults build confidence and grow emotionally, please see the resources available on the Youth Outreach page.
Looking for a place to keep your horse? You can find it in the Horse Boarding section. Traveling? Find a Shipping company or Horse Sitting service if your horse is staying home!
Want to stay up to date with the latest training clinics or professional conferences? Take a look at our Calendar of Events for Health & Education for the dates and locations of upcoming events.
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by Kassi Hoxmeier
It’s not too late to help protect your horse with Innovator® vaccines from Zoetis.
Horses are threatened with mortality rates up to 90 percent from mosquito-transmitted diseases, which include Eastern equine encephalomyelitis (EEE), Western equine encephalomyelitis (WEE) and West Nile virus.1
Horses are at the highest risk for contracting these diseases during mosquito season, occurring summer through fall in the United States.2 Risk management is critical for horse owners.
“To help limit a horse’s risk of contracting deadly core equine diseases, annual vaccinations are immensely important,” said Jaci Boggs, DVM, senior technical services veterinarian at Zoetis.
Read more: Core Equine Disease Risks Increase Amid Mosquito Season
by Sarah Nash
Racehorses spend much of the 24-h day indoors and unexposed to optimal daylight intensities or to the natural fluctuations in the environmental light-dark cycle. Frequent interactions with horses during night-time hours result in erratic exposure to light at night. This regime negatively impacts the horse’s body clock and can result in impaired growth, reduced immune response and poor performance. Our R&D department, led by Dr Barbara Murphy conducted a research trial to determine if a customized stable lighting system that could better mimic the natural environmental light-dark cycles could influence body composition and peripheral rhythmicity in clock gene expression in horses in training. The customized stable lighting system was designed to provide the horse with blue-enriched white LED light by day, gradual transitions at dawn and dusk, red light at night and extended daily hours of light.
Methods
A collaboration between University College Dublin and Equilume’s R&D department conducted two separate studies. The first study comprised of fifty-four two-year-old thoroughbreds in training divided into two groups and blocked for gender. Group 1 were maintained under the customized stable lighting system. Group 2 were maintained under traditional lighting consisting of a single fluorescent tube. Body composition, body weight, and fat-free mass were determined at three-week intervals for fifteen weeks. All horses experienced an exercise regime consisting of morning exercise that gradually increased in intensity per week as fitness improved.
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