Hi everyone, For the past year I have been using worm egg counts   (faecal egg counts) as part of Trooper's worming programme. The egg...

Here is a message from the British Horse Society from earlier in the week. An easy post for me to publish while I am busy but also still ver...

Horses with their unique and lengthy digestive tracts are known as non-ruminant, hindgut herbivores – meaning that like humans, they only h...

There are 6 main categories of wormers and then some of these categories can be combined to make some dual wormers. How long the wormer wil...

Resistance to wormers is are large potential problem. It is the worms themselves that become resistant to the wormer and not the horse. Ho...

Training When training a horse it is important to be mindful that the behavioural responses required of horses, even at the highest level ...

Immunological memory The immune system needs to remember the things it has had to fight off in the past in order to be able to treat them ...

What do parasites do? Parasites suppress the immune system of the host in order to help them survive. They want to carry out their own l...

After finishing the taught section to my masters course in June I completed a dissertation over the summer which was handed in at the end of...

Sarcoids are the most common form of skin tumour in the horse.  They are often seen on the head, and they may be a problem if near the eye...

A lot of people have been asking me recently how I keep Trooper supple and prevent him from getting stiff. For those of you that don't k...

New born foals are particularly susceptible to disease as they rely on colostrum from the mare to give them antibodies. Colostrum is the fir...

In the past I have talked about  recurrent airway obstruction , this post is going to focus on other respiratory diseases. There are a num...

Psychology plays a major role in all sports but I think it is very important in horse riding. Not only do you need to have the confidence to...

Last year at university I didn't choose to take the anatomy module as I find anatomy quite hard to memorise. Those that did take the mod...

Hopefully I am going to start writing a regular equine science type post every Sunday. Today I am going to talk about how horses keep warm d...

I saw this video earlier and found it interesting so thought I would link to it on here! It is about the use of sport psychology in dressage...

I thought it would be a good idea to write a post on the microbes that live in the hindgut of the horse as this is the subject I am currentl...

This is the last post in my behaviour series and is going to talk about the welfare of the horse with regards to behaviour. Animal welfare...

This post is another one of the behaviour posts and is about equine temperament. Introduction When looking at temperament it can be refer...