Recent News for Stallion Care and Problems
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More Stallions Positive for CEM; Federal Funds Requested
December 19, 2008
Twoadditional stallions bring the total to three positive for contagious equine metritis (CEM) on a single Central Kentucky farm. The stallions added to the list are a 13-year-old Quarter Horse and a 4-year-old registered with the American... Read More
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Contagious Equine Metritis Case Could Impact Horse Transport
December 16, 2008
State and federal agriculture officials announced Dec. 16 that a Quarter Horse stallion standing at stud in Kentucky has tested positive for contagious equine metritis (CEM). As the... Read More
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Bidding Opens for Texas A&M CVM's Legends Premier Stallion Season Auction
November 27, 2008
The Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences has announced that bidder registration is now open for the first ever Legends Premier Stallion Season Auction at the Legends auction Web site, <A... Read More
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Young Guns
October 01, 2008
Q: I would like to know at what age a colt could breed a mare. I have a 10-month-old colt that has been in with mares until recently, and I was told he could have bred my mares. A: There are many... Read More
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Behavioral Therapy Reduces War Emblem's Breeding Foibles
July 14, 2008
Moved to a tranquil area away from other stallions and shielded from most visitors, temperamental champion and dual classic winner War Emblem now spends his days in a quiet grassy paddock over looking fields containing grazing mares and... Read More
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Castration Technique Could Reduce Complications
June 30, 2008
A new sterilization technique that leaves a stallion's testicles in place but nonfunctioning might provide a safe, simple, and reliable alternative to traditional castration methods, according to Iranian researchers. In the... Read More
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Zoo Performs First Reverse Vasectomy on Horse
June 17, 2008
Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoo have revealed they reversed a vasectomy on an endangered horse to allow it to reproduce naturally--the first-known operation of its kind on an endangered species. Veterinarians said... Read More
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War Emblem Breeding Mares after Therapy
June 08, 2008
Champion and Kentucky Derby winner War Emblem is responding well to therapy for a breeding behavior dysfunction, according to experts at the University of Pennsylvania. "He has had fertile sperm, but for several years has remained selective... Read More
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Atypical Causes of Stallion Infertility
May 18, 2008
It pays to think outside the box when considering possible causes of stallion infertility. The stallion's reproductive conformation, quality of sperm, and history can all impact his performance in the breeding shed.... Read More
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Reproduction and Sports Medicine Update: AAEP 2007
May 01, 2008
Veterinarians who attended presentations at the event came away with 18 hours of continuing education credit and new knowledge of current topics in equine reproduction and lameness.... Read More
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Natural Stallion Behavior
May 01, 2008
Q: I own a Lusitano stallion that has been stabled at the same barn for four years. Within the past four to six months, he has shown increasingly aggressive displays toward two stallions that walk in front of his stall. He kicks an... Read More
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Stallion Reproduction (AAEP Milne Lecture)
April 27, 2008
Varner directed the final two hours to a discussion of stallion fertility and told the group, for example, that morphologically abnormal sperm often do not have a negative impact on normal sperm. ... Read More
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Vaccination Schedule Guidelines
April 21, 2008
Developing a vaccination schedule is not as straightforward as it sounds. So much of what you should vaccinate for depends upon such factors as where you live, how often your horse travels, how old he is, his vaccination history, and what infectious ... Read More
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Storm Cat Experiencing Drop in Fertility
April 08, 2008
Storm Cat, for years the No. 1 Thoroughbred stallion, has been experiencing difficulties impregnating his mares this breeding season at the Young's family's Overbrook Farm near Lexington. Fewer than half of the 31 mares that the 25-year-old... Read More
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Raising a Stud Colt
March 01, 2008
I have bred my first colt this year and thus far have followed handling practices we have used on our previous two filly foals with great success. We have a beautiful Welsh Section C colt who is unafraid of most things, is very people friendly, wil... Read More
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Review of French Equine Research Provided at Event
February 28, 2008
More than 200 researchers, veterinarians, breeders, and other equine professionals participated in the 34th annual French Equine Research Day held Feb. 28 in Paris, France. The event, sponsored by the French National Stud, provides a forum... Read More
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French Government Moves to Enhance Equine Research Facilities
February 21, 2008
New scientific partnerships and facilities will be added in the coming years to the French equine research hub in Lower Normandy in order to maintain its position on the international level, according to the French Minister of Agriculture and... Read More
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Breeding Behavior: War Emblem Managers Still Trying
February 17, 2008
Hope continues to spring in abundance, if perhaps not eternally, at the Shadai Stallion Station in Japan that War Emblem will overcome his mysterious disdain for breeding. With the dual American classic winner notching his first Japanese... Read More
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Best Breeding Approach
December 01, 2007
Q: For a horse reproduction project in my equine seminar course, I was trying to find video clips of horses breeding. Well, there were many on YouTube, and it took awhile to find the decent ones. But once I found some that were... Read More
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Enhancing Stallion Fertility
December 01, 2007
Science and good management are keys to keeping stallions at topbreeding performance. Another equine breeding season is only a short time away, with many breeding sheds... Read More
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EVA Vaccination Snafu Blocks Top European Horse from Running in Japan
November 20, 2007
Dylan Thomas, who was recently named Cartier Horse of the Year and top older horse in Europe, is no longer a contender for the Nov. 25 Japan Cup due to not testing negative for equine viral arteritis (EVA). A series of examinations conducted a... Read More
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Anabolic Steroid Effects
November 01, 2007
A colleague, Larry Soma, VMD, is an anesthesiologist/pharmacologist who conducts research for the Thoroughbred and Standardbred horse racing commissions in Pennsylvania. Basically, his lab develops and validates testing methods for detection of... Read More
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Unilateral Castration in Horses Contraindicated and Costly
September 29, 2007
Unilaterally castrating horses (removing only one testicle), often as a result of failure to identify cryptorchidism prior to commencing a surgical castration, is an expensive and unethical procedure that continues to occur too frequently,... Read More
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French National Stud Recovering from EVA Outbreak
September 28, 2007
Eight stallionsof the French national stud have been castrated and two others removed from the breeding site in an effort to control the spread of a recent outbreak of equine viral arteritis (EVA) in northwestern France. No new EVA cases... Read More
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EVA (Equine Viral Arteritis) Update
August 01, 2007
Over the past year there has been considerable fear in the breeding industry --especially the Quarter Horse industry--about the spread of equine viral arteritis (EVA). Although the disease has been around for a long time, confirmed outbreaks of EVA... Read More
