How to interpret hay analyses and what to do when there are hay shortages.

Rehabilitation and return to performance after colic surgery, written by Dr. Crystal Lee for the Canadian Horse Journal.

Equine Tooth Extraction

Dr. Kirby Penttila discusses recognizing and managing the club foot in horses in the Canadian Horse Journal’s summer 2020 issue.

Dr. Jennifer Morrissey goes over the details of what you need to know: how to tell that your mare might be about to foal, what happens in a normal foaling, and how to monitor your mare and foal after the birth.

EOTRH stands for Equine Odontoclastic Tooth Resorption and Hypercementosis. It is a painful condition affecting the dental tissues of the incisors and canines (front teeth). Most commonly, it is diagnosed in older horses (>15 years old).

Winter in this country is a beast. As I write this, we are into our 4th blast of snowy and cold weather already this fall (did I count right?), and it seems that winter is already well on its way to settling in. So a blogpost about proactive winter horse care may already seem a little past tense, but if you’re like me and living in denial that summer is already well past and fall quickly disappearing, you will have a few horse health care items to check off your list!

Dr. Erin Kolodziej gives an update on disease outbreaks in Alberta in 2018, as well as the newest products in joint injections and wound dressings.

Dr. Amelia Whitelaw gives an overview of Equine Cushing's Disease, how we diagnose it, and what can be done to effectively treat it.

Dr. Kirby Penttila discusses the many aspects of care that go into ensuring an equine athlete is prepared for competition.

Many people have heard of PPID or Equine Cushing’s Disease, but it can be a difficult disease to fully understand. By reading this blog post you can better understand what PPID means, how PPID presents clinically, how we can diagnose PPID, and what we can do to manage our PPID patients.