Vacuums Get Right To The Skin
With the right attachment, a vacuum will easily remove deep-down dust and dander from your horse’s coat. There’s not always time to give a bath, and some of us simply give up trying to remove that deep dust from long coats the stuff that seems to magically reappear as soon as you touch your horse. And which one of us doesn’t dread spring shedding? The right horse vacuum can solve all these problems and more. In fact, we think once you’ve used one, you’re going to always want it on hand.

Focus Your Deworming Efforts
Deworming by the calendar may cost you more than necessary and make future deworming more difcult by building drug resistance. Resistance to dewormers is extensive and officially includes almost all deworming drugs except ivermectin and moxidectin. However, with isolated reports of possible ivermectin resistance beginning to appear in horses, as they have in cattle for many years, we’re skeptical about no ivermectin resistance.

Equine Vaccines Move Into The 21st Century
After decades of relying on outdated technology, a few manufacturers are moving to bring equine vaccines up to par. In the year 1798, Edward Jenner discovered that deliberately injecting healthy patients with material from a patient with cow-pox could protect them from getting smallpox. Unfortunately, they often got very ill, and his contention that this odd practice could protect against smallpox was not widely accepted.