Articles by University of Kentucky College of Ag, Food and Environment

Equestrian Arena Options: Metal Buildings promo image

A UK graduate student is surveying horse owners, managers and riders on aspects of indoor arenas as they relate to horse and human health.

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UK Gluck Center Develops Novel Equine Arteritis Virus Test promo image

Equine Health

Credit: Thinkstock If you are in an area known to have poison ivy, be wary of touching it yourself or riding your horse through it. The latter could transfer the poison ivy oil to you from the horse's coat.

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Use Caution When Using Rye Straw for Bedding for Horses promo image

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Credit: Steve Patton Lloyd's of London presented a check for $50,000 to fund the Equine Disease Quarterly, published by the UK Department of Veterinary Science, Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center. Pictured (L to R): University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment representatives Dr. Peter Timoney, Veterinary Science Faculty; Dr. Alan Loynachan, Associate Professor Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory; Dr. David Horohov, Director of the Gluck Equine Research Center and Chair of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Kentucky; Lloyd's of London representatives: ; Pat Talley, Regional Director Central US Lloyd's America; William Wallace, V.P. Finance & Administration Lloyd's Kentucky; and Ken Maier, Assistant V.P. Lloyd's Kentucky.

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Plants to Avoid In Your Horse Farm Landscaping promo image

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Many people landscape their homes and farms to improve the aesthetics of the property. Unfortunately, many of those attractive plants are toxic to horses.

Credit: University of Kentucky “Parascaris univalens is really the forgotten parasite,” Nielsen said. “It is almost never mentioned in the textbooks, and most people have only heard about one roundworm species infecting equids.”

Equine Health

Equine Health

In this article, Laurie Lawrence, PhD, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, and Michael Flythe, PhD, Research Microbiologist, USDA-ARS, University of Kentucky, discuss the good and bad "bugs" in the gut.

Problems with Mice and Rats; Use Caution with Baits promo image

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Credit: Courtesy of Clemson University, Bugwood.org This is an image of a striped blister beetle. There is variation in average cantharidin content among the species, but it has been consistently higher (about 5 mg/beetle) in the striped blister beetle than in the other species (about 0.5 mg/beetle).

Equine Health

Stable Management

Credit: Thinkstock Ingestion of pre-formed toxin is the most common form affecting adult horses, which happens when they eat feed, such as hay or grain, that contains animal remains.

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Credit: Photos.com Joint disease is one of the most common causes of lameness and a primary reason why many horses' athletic careers come to an end.

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Barns/Grounds

The University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering staff members Stephanie Mehlhope, Sarah Wightman, and Steve Higgins, PhD, Director of Animal and Environmental...

Skull Fractures Can Happen in Horses promo image

Equine Health

Horses often are victims of accidental injury. A fairly common and usually catastrophic injury of horses is trauma to the head resulting in fracture of the skull.