VMP 420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dressage, Abdominal Pain, Laminitis
13 Jan 2020
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Professor: callie fogle, dvm, equine surgeon at ncsu-cvm. Parasites, weight, and health: 1 is emaciated, 4 is moderately thin, also race-horses (they have higher metabolism, 5,6, and 7 may be preffered. Jumpers (in dressage) are usually heavier about 7 because they have a lot of muscle: normal, healthy horses: 4-6. Check fat storage along the neck, withers, over the ribs, behind shoulders, flank, crease down back, between thighs, and tailhead. If overweight, their back and tailhead will look like a box. Examples: bcs 1-3, reasons, starvation, disease (cancer, heavily parasitized, more common back in the day. Just know that the back (potentially drooped) does not have to do with weight but rather just age. The older it is, the droopier it may be: colic: a belly ache (abdominal pain, bcs 7/8/9, reasons, high concentrate diet with little exercise, rich pasture, more common to find obese horses than emaciated nowadays.
