Simple luminal obstructions of the large and small colon are relatively common causes of colic in horses, and are caused by feed impaction, sand accumulation, fibrous foreign body ingestion, nonstrangulating displacements, and or enterolith formation. Many horses with large colon and small colon feed impactions respond to medical treatment, including withholding feed, administering fluid therap...

REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY Exertional rhabdomyolysis (ER) is a reported syndrome in competing endurance horses; however, the prevalence and cause of ER in this population have not been defined. OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of ER in a sample of endurance racing horses and investigate factors, including relevant genetic defects, contributing to the occurrence of rhabdomyolysis in th...

Horses are often stabled in individual boxes, a method that does not meet their natural needs and may cause psychical and musculoskeletal diseases. This problem is particularly evident in Iceland, where horses often spend the long winter periods in cramped boxes. The aim of this study was to analyze the suitability of a group housing system in Iceland, but the results are also applicable to hor...

The natural diet of free-ranging horses is grass, which is typically high in fiber and calorically dilute, however diets for high performance domestic horses are often low in fiber and calorically dense. The aim of the study was to determine the motivation of horses for hay when fed a low roughage diet. Their motivation could be used to determine if low roughage diets compromise the welfare of ...

BACKGROUND Horses show compensatory head movement in hindlimb lameness and compensatory pelvis movement in forelimb lameness but little is known about the relationship of withers movement symmetry with head and pelvic asymmetry in horses with naturally occurring gait asymmetries. OBJECTIVES To document head, withers and pelvic movement asymmetry and timing differences in horses with naturally...

nephrolithiasis was incidentally diagnosed in 2 arabian horses, a young foal and an adult mare, from maybod, yazd province, iran. the foal had bilateral neophrolithiasis, as multiple sand like stones in renal papillary area. large nephroliths were found in the left kidney of mare. prominent composition of those nephroliths was magnesium ammonium phosphate. risk factors and other aspects of neph...

Abstract Horses and chariots—and the associated technology expertise—derived from steppe contributed to success of Zhou conquest Shang in c. 1045 BC remained important throughout rule ancient China. On basis material cultural patterns, including style used bridle cheek-pieces found tombs late second early first millennium BC, this paper points a northern origin for horses. Important intermediar...

contagious equine metritis (cem) is a venereal transmissible and non-systemic disease of horses caused by a gram negative, bacillus or cocco-bacillus and non-motile bacterium, taylorella equigenitalis which can lead a transient infertility in mares. identification of this bacterium is based on microaerophilic culture, but weakness of this bacterium in growth compared with secondary and symbioti...

background: brucellosis is a febrile zoonotic infectionand has worldwide distribution among humans as well asanimals. although the seroprevalence of brucellosis in variousanimals has been described in iran, there is only one report onequine brucellosis in the region. objectives: this study wascarried out to determine the seroprevalence of brucellosis inracing clubs and private horse owners in t...

BACKGROUND Axial osteitis of the proximal sesamoid bones and desmitis of the intersesamoidean ligament has been described in Friesian horses as well as in other breeds. The objectives of this study were to review the outcome of clinical cases of this disease in Friesian horses and analyse the pathology of the bone-ligament interface. Case records of Friesian horses diagnosed with axial osteitis...