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First world conference on horse transport safety
By Donna Vincent @ Tuesday, 7 February 2012 10:43 a.m. :: 1 Views :: Equine Health
  The international Animal Transportation Association is planning the first conference in the world on horse transport safety.   ...
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Lifetime of horse care Horse harmony the goal
By Donna Vincent @ Tuesday, 7 February 2012 8:47 a.m. :: 2 Views :: Equine Health
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Manuka honey's antibacterial properties shown again
By Donna Vincent @ Tuesday, 7 February 2012 8:45 a.m. :: 2 Views :: Equine Health
  New Zealand's manuka honey has again proved its worth in wound treatments - this time in humans.   ...
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Recognition for work on horse reproduction
By Donna Vincent @ Monday, 19 December 2011 3:30 p.m. :: 0 Views :: Equine Health
  Canterbury's Lincoln University is to award its Bledisloe Medal to Dr Margaret Evans, an endocrinologist and equine scientist of intern...
Barefoot and happy: the latest in hoof care
By Donna Vincent @ Monday, 25 July 2011 11:17 a.m. :: 127 Views :: Equine Health
A Waikato couple are making a living out of encouraging their clients to throw away their shoes in favour of life in bare feet. Shane and Angela D...
Equinome Launches Elite Performance Test for Thoroughbred Horses
By Donna Vincent @ Monday, 25 July 2011 10:55 a.m. :: 161 Views :: Equine Health
  ScienceDaily (July 18, 2011) — Equinome, the University College Dublin equine genomics spin-out company, has launched a new gene...
Equine virus unlikely to get to NZ say officials
By Donna Vincent @ Monday, 18 July 2011 9:26 a.m. :: 146 Views :: Equine Health
Equine health officials say the hendra virus, which has killed horses in Australia, is unlikely to spread to New Zealand. The virus is passed on b...
NZ honey can help heal horse leg wounds
By Donna Vincent @ Monday, 4 July 2011 11:52 a.m. :: 104 Views :: Equine Health
A type of honey made by bees in New Zealand turns out to be a "superior" treatment for leg wounds in horses, researchers say. The team from the Unive...
Feral Horse Foot As Model Questioned
By Donna Vincent @ Tuesday, 14 June 2011 5:06 p.m. :: 119 Views :: Equine Health
Newsdate: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 - 08:42 AM Location: SAN DIEGO, California According to research done by Dr. Brian Hampson for his PhD thesi...
Wild horse foot may not be good benchmark - researcher
By Donna Vincent @ Tuesday, 7 June 2011 1:33 p.m. :: 93 Views :: Equine Health
The feral horse foot may not be the appropriate benchmark model for equine foot health, an Australian researcher has suggested.   ...
Feeding your Hunters - 'it's two eezy'
By Donna Vincent @ Tuesday, 7 June 2011 1:16 p.m. :: 165 Views :: Equine Health
Article from RD1's 'Straight from the Horse's Mouth', June 2011. The combination of feeding Dunstan Eezymix, an extruded cereal and rice based comple...
International network to help in disease fight
By Donna Vincent @ Tuesday, 31 May 2011 1:21 p.m. :: 1 Views :: Equine Health
Britain is leading a new international network, which includes the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, which will help nations protect...
Illston packs plenty into her equine day
By Donna Vincent @ Wednesday, 1 December 2010 9:57 a.m. :: 227 Views :: Equine Health
from Manawatu Standard (dated 24nov10) A sense of humour appears to help Mandy Illston get through her hectic horse world in which even sleep is a pr...
More than 700 horses used in NZ research in 2009
By Donna Vincent @ Thursday, 23 September 2010 8:59 a.m. :: 240 Views :: Equine Health
From Horsetalk.com (dated 18 September 2010) A total of 709 horses were used in New Zealand for research in 2009, latest figures reveal.   Thi...
CVG greets equine athletes
By Donna Vincent @ Thursday, 23 September 2010 8:56 a.m. :: 350 Views :: International Events, Equine Health
From Cincinnati News (dated 15 September) The employee parking lot at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport will be a busy place for the next few week...
Final EI report expresses optimism over levy
By Donna Vincent @ Monday, 13 September 2010 9:26 a.m. :: 215 Views :: Equine Health
From Horsetalk.co.nz (dated 10 September 2010) The man charged with reviewing the rollout of biosecurity changes following Australia's 2007 outb...
FEI announces initial timetable for NSAIDs Congress
By Donna Vincent @ Thursday, 15 July 2010 10:57 a.m. :: 271 Views :: Equine Health
From: Equestrian Sports NZ (dated 07 July 2010)   The FEI have released an initial draft of the timetable for the Congress they will stage...
Equine Research Priorities Identified in NZ
By Donna Vincent @ Tuesday, 8 June 2010 12:44 p.m. :: 279 Views :: Equine Health
from: Horsetalk.co.nz (dated 04 June 2010) A survey by the New Zealand Equine Research Foundation has identified areas of research interest amon...
New Zealand's leading equine herbalist to visit UK
By Donna Vincent @ Friday, 21 May 2010 11:03 a.m. :: 416 Views :: International Events, Equine Health
from Eclipse Magazine (dated 21 may) New Zealand’s leading equine herbalist and consultant, James Hart is to visit the UK, Ireland and Germany t...
Minister spells out disease levy position
By Donna Vincent @ Thursday, 13 May 2010 5:15 p.m. :: 325 Views :: Equine Health
From Horsetalk.co.nz (7 May 2010) Australia's agriculture minister has spelt out to the horse industry the need to forge an agreement on a disease-fi...
EI: Listen to broader industry, says horse council
By Donna Vincent @ Tuesday, 4 May 2010 11:23 a.m. :: 380 Views :: Horse Sales, Equine Health
From Horsetalk.co.nz (dated 23April 2010)   Agriculture ministers meeting in Darwin must heed the concerns of the broader horse industry and re...
FEI 'clean sport' rules will impact on national competition too (UK)
By Donna Vincent @ Monday, 19 April 2010 3:22 p.m. :: 457 Views :: International Events, Equine Health
From equinetrader.co.nz New rules to make international horse sport "cleaner" came into force on Monday, 5 April, and riders across the UK will feel ...
The drugs vote that rained on the FEI's parade
By Donna Vincent @ Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:33 p.m. :: 1 Views :: International Events, Equine Health
From Horsetalk ... A grey winter gloom descended over Copenhagen as delegates from member nations of the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) be...
NZ's position on 'progressive list' known next week
By Donna Vincent @ Friday, 4 December 2009 1:53 p.m. :: 1 Views :: Equine Health
From Horsetalk ... Equestrian Sport New Zealand will make known its formal position on the FEI's controversial "progressive list" of drugs immediatel...
Dressage officials back efforts to stop rollkur
By Donna Vincent @ Thursday, 3 December 2009 1:49 p.m. :: 1 Views :: Equine Health
From Horsetalk ... The International Dressage Officials Club is supporting efforts to stop horse abuse in the form of hyperflexion, or rollkur, and i...
FEI delays new drugs policy 'for broader debate'
By Donna Vincent @ Wednesday, 2 December 2009 12:45 p.m. :: 1 Views :: Equine Health
From Horsetalk: Introduction of the FEI's new drugs policy has been delayed, with equestrian sport's governing body admitting the furore over the so-...
FEI split possible as doping fallout continues
By Donna Vincent @ Saturday, 28 November 2009 12:01 a.m. :: 1 Views :: Equine Health
From Horsetalk: The possibility of a split in the International Equestrian Federation has been raised as fallout continues from the body's introducti...
FEI headache grows as drug-rule backlash intensifies
By Donna Vincent @ Friday, 27 November 2009 11:58 p.m. :: 1 Views :: Equine Health
From Horsetalk: International Equestrian Federation officials may soon be reaching for their own painkillers as the headache grows over new drug regu...
Petition calls for backtrack on FEI drug stance
By Donna Vincent @ Wednesday, 25 November 2009 11:57 p.m. :: 1 Views :: Equine Health
From Horsetalk: An on-line petition has been launched urging the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) to abandon a new drugs policy which will a...
FEI uproar over late proposal to re-legalise controversial drug phenylbutazone
By Donna Vincent @ Thursday, 19 November 2009 9:41 p.m. :: 1 Views :: Equine Health
From Telegraph UK The FEI general assembly in Copenhagen erupted on Wednesday night after delegates learned it would be put to the vote this morni...
Counties Sporthorse Microchip Programme
By Neil Houston @ Tuesday, 17 June 2008 3:30 p.m. :: 2984 Views :: Equine Health

Counties NZ Sporthorse is pleased to announce it’s microchip program, which will be a major improvement in the identification and recording of NZ Sporthorses.

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Equine Influenza
By Neil Houston @ Wednesday, 23 January 2008 9:11 a.m. :: 785 Views :: Equine Health

Equine influenza (EI) is an acute, highly contagious viral disease which causes rapidly spreading outbreaks of respiratory disease in horses and other equine species such as donkeys. It is called an exotic disease, meaning that is not present in New Zealand and until recently had not been present in Australia. It is present in virtually all other countries apart from Iceland!

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