Taking a “wait-and-see” approach to horses in need of colic surgery ups the ante on expense – and survivability, reports EQUUS magazine. Dr. David Freeman, director of the Island Whirl Equine Colic ...

When a horse is in the midst of a bout of colic, many owners wonder if their animal will need surgery to fix the problem. For those owners who have never experienced a referral to an emergency medical ...

Colic in horses is a term used to describe all types of abdominal pain, rather than a single condition or disease. It can affect horses of all ages and types and can occur at any time of the year.

Geriatric horses have lower survival rates than younger horses following exploratory colic surgery, but a year later there’s no significant difference in survival rates between the age groups, report ...

It was a typical Saturday several months ago when 19-year-old Kaitlyn Bonis completed a dressage workout with Sunny, her 24-year-old Arabian horse. But the next day, her family received a call from ...

5:00 a.m. — “The horse was in extreme distress and the horse owners agreed: The only option to alleviate the suffering was euthanasia,” said Ed Murray, DVM, owner of Coosa Valley Equine Center in Pell ...

Yard owners are urged to play a part in tackling growing and potentially deadly wormer resistance. Project WORMS, an ...

Photo by Rebecca J. Banabi. The Corolla Wild Horse Fund announced the deaths of two wild horses last week, both to colic. Horses are unable to regurgitate food because they do not have the muscles in ...

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A Central Park carriage horse died suddenly of colic, city officials said Wednesday. The Belgian Draft horse, named Billy, died in his stall about 4 a.m. July 20. A worker at the stables, which is ...