Having spent over 40 years in the horse industry, all my working life, the idea of being able to ‘share some pearls of wisdom’ gleaned from a life time of experiences with horses, particularly off track Thoroughbreds seemed like the right thing to do.
Find lots of useful information, advice, training tips, and current happenings in the world of Off Track Thoroughbreds and ownership. This is the place to find the help and answers you are looking for.
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Off Track Thoroughbred-OTTB-Blog by Melody Taylor-Scott Help and Answers for OTTB owners
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Cautions When Administering Equine Medications
Be familiar with medication side effects and drug interactions before administering therapeutic agents to your horse.
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Likely lingering in our equine first aid kit, barn and tack room cabinets, or in
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Horse Conformation Conundrums (page 2 of 2)
Treatment Options
As Confucius said, “The real fault is to have faults and not to amend them.”
Most veterinary surgeons agree; conformation defects such as severe angular limb deformities will not correct themselves, and intervention is require
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Horse Conformation Conundrums
Which limb defects matter and which don’t?
Since horses’ domestication, humans have been scrutinizing equine legs in an attempt to judge which horse will perform best in a given situation. Be it for racing, reining, or riding, a horse needs to be put togethe
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Equine Splints: Causes and Cures
Learn how to keep splints (bony lower leg swellings) from becoming permanent blemishes or problems that interfere with a horse’s athletic career.
Radiograph of a broken splint bone
Your 2 1/2-year-old horse has been in training for a few months, but even though
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A thrush infection usually is fairly superficial in its invasion of the tissues. Initially, it might be difficult to identify the presence of thrush, since in the early stages the horse is not lame and might show no other clinical signs. A more deep-seated infection can penetrate even further and, t
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Bone chips in a horse's movable joints can compromise the animal's ability to perform, and, in some cases, they can even end the animal's career. However, not all bone chips are created equal. Some are so innocuous that they cause little or no hindrance to the horse's well-being or ability to [...]
Although it is often overlooked in discussions involving equine nutrition, water could be considered the first limiting nutrient of all horses, as they cannot survive for as many days without water as they can without [...]
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