With spring approaching in Wisconsin, horse owners are starting to think about immunizations or vaccinations as well as other spring preventative health care for their horses. Historically, “spring preventative health care” has included vaccinations, dental checkups, fecal parasite evaluations and annual Coggins testing as well as annual wellness checkups. This can create a sizeable veterinary bill all at once. Some horse owners wonder if this work can be spread out over more time to lessen this financial blow as well as whether it’s all needed in the spring. The answer is yes and no. Read on to find out why.
Coggins Test: What, When, & Why
How to apply standing wraps to a horse
How to Properly Handle Your Horse During a Veterinary Visit
Learn how to properly handle your horse during a veterinary or farrier visit in order to keep yourself, your horse, and your farrier or veterinarian safe!
Scratches Treatment and Prevention
Acupuncture Case Study
The Trouble With Foxtails
Springtime & Scratches
Ice Balls
Vaccine Reactions
Vaccine reactions are rare, usually mild, and can vary based on a horse's reaction to a particular adjuvant, route, or sensitivity. Your horse may react with hives to an IM vaccine one year, and have no reaction to an intranasal vaccine of for the same infection. Learn more about managing your horse's vaccine reactions. . .
Potomac Horse Fever & Mayflies
Caring for your Horse in Extreme Heat
When Should I Geld My Colt?
EPM and How to Prevent it
Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM) is a neurologic disease in horses caused by infection with the protozoan Sarcocystis neurona (SN). SN infects horses when they ingest the organism in contaminated feed or water. The definitive host of this organism is the opossum, which passes the organism in its feces.