04/15/2021
🌟🌟🌟PLEASE BE VIGILANT WITH CARING FOR YOUR HORSES🌟🌟🌟
There are currently multiple serious infectious diseases occurring in horses right now in VT. The bacterial infection streptococcus equi subsp equi (Strangles), Equine Coronavirus (not to be confused with COVID, and as of today, Equine Herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy (EHM), which is caused by a strain of EHV-1. Currently there is no vaccine to prevent this form of EHV-1.
Precautions for all of these infections include:
⭐️Quarantining NEW horses away from other horses on premise = no nose to nose contact, no sharing water buckets or feed tubs, separate equipment for mucking pastures and stalls, no other shared equipment including tack (disinfect if so), separate footwear or make a foot bath of bleach and water with a 1:10 dilution, for 28 DAYS
⭐️If traveling with horses for shows, events or trail riding = no nose to nose contact, no sharing water buckets or feed tubs, separate equipment for mucking trailers, pastures, and stalls, no other shared equipment including tack (disinfect if so).
⭐️If your horse has any respiratory signs, not interested in feed, not acting themselves, has a fever, has loose manure or diarrhea, or giving you any other sign to tell you something is wrong, contact your veterinarian
⭐️Equine Coronavirus is contracted via fecal-oral route, so it is very important to have non-contaminated footwear. Be sure ANYONE (your veterinarian, your farrier, your friends) who has been around other horses that steps onto your premises has clean and disinfected footwear prior to doing so. You can easily make a foot bath of bleach and water with a 1:10 dilution which will kill this virus. After cleaning debris from footwear, Lysol will also kill this virus.
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