This week’s blog takes a look at horse’s whinnies, overweight horses and overtraining, before testing how much you know about your equine’s heart.



But first, a happy story about a young foal who is able to walk again after pioneering treatment in Belgium. After a healthy birth, the filly Vittel suddenly lost movement in his hind legs and developed incontinence when he was three weeks old. She was found to have a cyst that was compressing her spinal cord and this was removed… Continue

Welcome everyone to this week's (slightly late) weekly news blog post which this week doesn't just consider horse science, but looks at riders' fitness too, and also takes two looks at equine crib-biting.



However, first we have some news about a veterinary fund-raising appeal that horse owners should try and get involved in. Equine Recurrent Uveitis (ERU) is a painful inflammation of the inside of the eye and is the most common cause of blindness in horses. There is currently… Continue

Welcome to a very different equine science blog this week. I’m currently on holiday so am unable to do a weekly news round up this week until Sunday August, 23. In the meantime, I thought I’d do a blog post about a condition and disease that is less well known: the effects of ticks on horses.



Ticks are external parasites of warm-blooded animals, such as horses, sheep and humans, that feed on blood to survive. They have… Continue

Sleep, saddles and social behaviour are just three of the things I'm going to be looking at in today's equine science weekly round up:



Researchers in South Africa have discovered that friendship with unrelated mares, can increase a wild mare's reproductive success. The scientists from the University of Pretoria in conjunction with colleagues from New Zealand studied the social relationships of feral horses in the North Island of New Zealand and found that mares who formed… Continue

Welcome to the first August edition of the Equine Science blog. Here's this week's round up of science news from the equestrian world:



Tomorrow (Saturday Aug 8) sees a seminar on “Science of Horses” at Gloucester County College, in the US. The event is aimed to educate school teachers and those working in further education in agricultural and equine areas such as 4-H. The session covers basic horse behaviour, careers and education, nutrition as well as equine abnormalities.… Continue