Dehydration Colic
At this time of year in Australia the southern states are freezing through the cold winter months while the northern states are in the middle of the dry season. Whether it [...]
Environmental Management and Parasite Control
Environmental management is an important part of parasite control. When a horse sheds eggs in their faeces, they hatch into larvae on the pasture which are then ingested by other horses [...]
Importance of Faecal Egg Counts!
As we have talked about in our earlier posts, blanket worming and overuse of wormers is both unnecessary and contributes to resistance. Therefore, we now recommend a targeted program tailored to [...]
Worm Drug Resistance
What is resistance? Resistance is “the ability of worms in a population to survive treatment with a drug that should be effective against the species and life stage”. This means that [...]
Why are worms a burden for horses?
Horses have evolved over thousands of years to live with parasites in their gut which we commonly call “worms.” So why are we always trying to get rid of them from [...]
Haemorrhagic / Anovulatory Follicles
Haemorrhagic anovulatory follicle (HAF) means that a follicle (the structure that carries the oocyte or egg within the ovaries) remains in the ovary for a long period of time and gets [...]
10 Summer Health Problems for Horses
Dehydration A consequence of fluid loss, dehydration can affect your horse year-round, but remains more prevalent during Summer when fluid loss from sweating exceeds a horse's intake through drinking. Dehydration is [...]
Treating lameness with a horses own blood!
There are two treatments that we commonly use at NEC to treat lameness and joint injury in horses that take advantage of healing agents in the horse’s own blood.IRAP or Interleukin-1 [...]
Semen Freezing and Storage
Preserving your stallion genetics is key and we offer this procedure in our equine reproduction laboratory at Luskintyre.WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES? Increased quality control:The use of frozen semen allows pre-screening for infectious [...]
Semen Collection and Evaluation
Available for all breeds, this procedure consists in a brief physical examination and external evaluation of the reproductive tract (testicles, scrotum and penis) followed by semen collection in an artificial vagina [...]