Wellness Zone

Our acquaintance and story began at Performance Horse in Bonsall, California, where we first met Jody Childs and her young riding student. A presentation by Dr. Marvin Hausman was the draw as Fribromyalgia has been her plague for years. ...

The FDA announced in Dec 2011 that the agency will now ban the agricultural use of cephalosporins, a class of antibiotics used in humans to treat pneumonia, skin and soft tissue infections as well as urinary tract infections. In horses it is...

A veterinary surgeon named John Stewart, professor of veterinary medicine in Glasgow, Scotland, wrote a book that was published in 1856 called The Stable Book: Being a Treatise on the Management of Horses. A reader in the twenty-first...

German native Gundi Younger, a USDF Bronze, Silver, and Gold Medalist describes the journey to a whole food diet for her horses. Raised in Hamburg, Germany, Gundi  got her first pony, a Shetland, when she was four years old. Gundi: We didn...

The meteoric rise of Lauren Sammis and the dutch gelding Sagacious (owned by Al Guden and Hyperion Farm) from training level to Grand Prix took an abrupt detour when Sagacious began resisting and struggling in his work. Lauren: I got into a rut...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published the proposed Animal Disease Traceability rule on August 9, 2011 with a 90 day comment period. USDA subsequently extended the comment period to December 9, 2011. The purpose of the proposed...

Horse Owners can take part in Uckele's New Campaign. Uckele Health & Nutrition has launched a fresh marketing campaign based on the lifelong, enriching bonds people develop with their horses. This campaign, entitled, "Down the Aisle, For the...

This week's Wellness Wednesday is brought to you by Uckele Health & Nutrition. Considering the quality health care we have available for our horses today, there is no reason they shouldn’t be living to a ripe old age in the greatest...

This week's Wellness Wednesday brought to you by Biostar. One of the great ironies of competition is that most show grounds provide good footing, good stabling, good show management, very often have less than nutritious food for the...