Rood & Riddle’s new referral and surgical hospital located on Southshore Boulevard now provides expanded veterinary services to South Florida. In addition to the newly renovated facility, Rood & Riddle owns one-third of Advanced Equine Imaging, also located on the Wellington property. Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Wellington is the second expansion for the Lexington, Kentucky, based equine veterinary practice, which also established a referral and surgical practice in Saratoga Springs, New York, in 2013.

Your horse’s well-being is riding on your tires. Do you know if those tires are safe? If not, here is what you need to know:

The ARK at JFK is located at New York’s JFK on 14.4 acres and is opening up in three phases in 2017. As part of Phase 1, The ARK Pet Oasis and Equine Export Center opened January 2, 2017 and have welcomed horses, dogs, cats, rabbits, turtles, baby goats, a pot-bellied pig and many other animals. Phase 2 includes the Equine Import Quarantine (now open) and The ARK Aviary Quarantine, which is complete and awaiting final approval of the USDA.

While some advocate extreme calorie restriction, especially when trying to get weight off a horse, this really isn’t necessary. A grass hay with under 10% sugar (ESC) and starch combined, protein 9+% can usually be fed at a rate of 1.5% of current body weight or 2% of ideal body weight, whichever is larger, to achieve the desired weight.

Concentrate feeds have been linked to cribbing, but it is not known why, or which of their characteristics might be responsible. What is it about concentrate feed that stimulates cribbing?

The Habronema larvae are passed in horse manure, when flies feed on the manure they actually take in the microscopic larvae. These larvae develop and when the flies feed on a horse’s wound or around the eyes, lips or other areas of the horse that are moist the larvae moves to the mouth parts of the fly then they get into the small wound that the fly makes as it feeds on the horse and burrow in to the tissue of the horse.

– Overlap layers of bandage by 50 percent to avoid having edges of the wrap material dig into the leg.
– Ensure the bandage is smooth against the horse’s leg to avoid uneven pressure.
– Avoid incorporating frayed bits of padding that contain wrinkles or bunches. These can cause pressure points under a bandage.

“With strangles, about 10 percent of horses don’t fully recover from the disease and can then become persistent carriers.2 Unfortunately, persistent carrier horses don’t show the outward clinical signs that sick horses do.”