For horse people, there are few topics more controversial than slaughter.

When a government report was released June 22, it didn’t tell anyone seriously involved on either side of the debate anything they didn’t already know. But the report did frame the situation perfectly by recommending either closing the channel of slaughter from the United States or re-opening domestic slaughterhouses.

One of the more popular methods for calming horses might employ a commonly used mineral, but it’s safe only in certain applications.

Matthew Lawson couldn’t quite believe what he was hearing. He cocked his head, stuck his hands in his pockets and just nodded.

More than 13,000 horses reside in Sonoma County, Calif., making the equine industry there second only to its world-famous wine. But the Sonoma horse community is far from a united front against the outbreak of equine herpes virus (EHV-1).

Reactions run the gamut with few people sitting on the fence.

Two Sonoma County horses attended the National Cutting Horse Association Western National Championship, held April 28-May 8 in Ogden, Utah, which has been pinpointed as the source of the potentially lethal virus. These two horses haven’t yet shown symptoms of the disease.

No one could have predicted that the Fédération Equestre Internationale delegates would vote to legalize threshold levels of drugs like phenylbutazone at the General Assembly in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Nov. 19.

Periosteal stripping is the primary surgical technique for angular limb deformities of the lower radius and tibia. During the surgery, the veterinarian makes an inverted T-shaped incision just above the growth plates on the shorter side of the bone and then peels away the periosteum from the bone at the site to encourage growth.