You’ve gone out to the barn to investigate a truly awful smell and you notice that not only is the smell coming from your horse, but he has an exceptionally snotty nose on one side. What could it mean? Older horses (more than 15 years of age and up to over 30)...
As the weather continues to be unseasonably warm here in Colorado, our clients are thinking about yearly spring vaccine appointments for their horses. Many clients ask whether or not they need to still be vaccinating for West Nile Virus. The answer is...
February brings Valentine’s Day, more winter, maybe even a fun President’s Day weekend trip. The days are slowly getting longer and by the end of the month the weather will hopefully start to slowly slip from winter to spring. For some of us horse owners, February...
We get asked on a regular basis “When is the right time to blanket my horse?” Here in Colorado, we can get some pretty gnarly winter weather with blizzards, extreme negative temperatures and very high arctic winds. Even though as I write this it is a sunny,...
QUESTION: My Horse has one white sock, and this winter, she has developed “crusties” along the back side of her pasterns. She acts as though it hurts if I try to pick at the scabs. One of my friends called it “grease-heel” and another called it...
