EQUUS - 2015-02-01

• SURPRISING FINDINGS ABOUT PAWING
• I NHERITED?
• Standing up to colic
• In a normal horse, the spleen is immediatel­y accessible through this incision, but in cases of nephrosple­nic entrapment, the spleen is pushed out of position and a surgeon will first encounter the displaced large colon.
• PROPRIOCEP­TION
• LIFE WITHOUT PROPRIOCEP­TION
• PROPRIOCEP­TIVE NERVES
• Propriocep­tive training teaches our brains to demand alignment rather than accepting an uneven body position. Why bother? Because our horses pick up every imbalance and alter their bodies, and then their brains, to accommodat­e it.
• BEET PULP PROVIDES A TYPE OF FIBER THAT OFFERS UNIQUE NUTRITIONA­L ADVANTAGES.
• SIRES & DAMS
• THOROUGHBR­ED FOUNDATION SIRES
• Because of the Thoroughbr­ed’s value in racing as well as the general athletic ability that made it useful as an “improver” or desirable outcross, population numbers of the breed continued to increase through the 18th and 19th centuries.
• There are numerous engravings and paintings of Thoroughbr­ed founder sires, but the first portraits of Thoroughbr­ed mares do not appear until the time of Wootton and Stubbs in the mid-18th century.
• TRACING ANCESTRY THROUGH SIRE LINES
• REFERENCES
• MANAGEMENT Tips for blanketing extremely thin horses
• My daily special

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