Exchanges of information are becoming more and more common between veterinarians and human doctors. There are many diseases that occur similarly in humans and dogs, horses, pigs and sheep because their physiology and anatomy closely resembles that of humans. Most of the time, drugs that can cure test rodents fail to work on humans. Veterinary […]
The Mustang is a descendant of horses brought to America by the Spanish. Small and compact, they are hardy horses. They are not considered wild, but are feral horses since their forbears were domesticated horses. They are called Mustang, a word derived from the Spanish, mestango or mesteno, meaning “stray livestock animal.” The Mustangs ancestry […]
A mare’s pregnancy is 11 months long. That gives us enough time to prepare for the birth of the foal. The foal will do most of its growing during the last trimester of pregnancy. At that time, about 8 months into the pregnancy, the mare will require more food. Care should be taken where the […]
