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Cautions When Administering Medications
by: Nancy S. Loving, DVM
Be familiar with medication side effects and drug interactions before administering therapeutic agents to your horse. Likely lingering in our equine first aid kit, barn and tack room cabinets, or in the horse trailer is an assortment of medications, in bottles, syringes, and tubs, awaiting the next "incident" that might unfold with our horses. Often we ...
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