I plan on posting more often, but I want to give you an opportunity to dictate what I write about. So in the comments section below give me your ideas, your concerns, your desires on what you want to know about your horse as it pertains to its health. It can be traditional or alternative, [...]

Image by pmarkham via Flickr Thanks to Dr. Geoff Tucker for posting a good piece on equine dentistry and trying to relieve some fears about it – EQUINE DENTISTRY – 10 REASONS WHY HORSE OWNERS AVOID IT I think my favorite is that some owners don’t know there are teeth back there. You would think [...]

Many horses have very small, vestigial teeth known as wolf teeth. They are very rudimentary teeth not even resembling any of the other molars about the size of a human’s baby tooth that are found just in front of the first big cheek tooth. Many veterinarians and equine dentists when they find these teeth remove [...]

Image via Wikipedia Are you kidding me? The Clydesdales are not going to be in the SuperBowl this year? Those powerful iconic, I think of Budweiser every time I see one, Clydesdales are not going to be a commercial in this years Super Bowl! I understand that Budweiser needs to be very selective about its [...]

OK this is very irritating – one of my clients used my name to try and get the barn owner convinced that they need change the way they are feeding her horse. Now I would not have minded if the horse owner was telling the barn owner something that I believe to be true, but [...]

Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy is a viable alternative to drugs for the treatment of pain and inflammation in horses  due to a variety of causes such as arthritis, surgery, and wounds.  Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy or PEMF affects pain perception in many different ways. It affects calcium ion movement, endorphin levels, acupuncture point stimulation, nerve [...]

I have been looking for more blogs about horses and horse health and I should have thought of this but someone beat me to it – just ask! I belong to a group on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/drdanbeatty) called This Business of Horses and wouldn’t you know it someone posted a question “Do you write a horse [...]

A horse is built to move. In the wild a horse is a grazer and the herd moves several miles a day in search of food. We as humans use this to our advantage – in the beginning a horse was used as a mode of transportation, because how they are built to move. Today [...]

OK I have found 3 thats right, only 3 good quality horse health blogs! (well besides this one). I am sure there are more than these three out there but since I have not received any insights from my readers as to what else they might be reading I will go with what I know [...]

OK the transfer of this site is almost complete – however I ran into one small problem. My blogroll is gone! A blogroll is a list of sites that are of similar content to the blog that they are listed on or are sites that the author of the blog likes. I had a few [...]