Horse Health
This page offers general information on horse health. Click on the tab 'From the Vets in the Valley' to find a library of
educational material offered by equine veterinarians throughout the Roaring Fork Valley!
INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN OUR AREA:
Strangles (Streptococcus equi equi) in Colorado
Strangles is a bacterial disease that most typically causes an upper respiratory tract infection. Horses will develop a snotty nose and enlarged lymph nodes under the jaw.
Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (VSV) in Colorado
VSV is a disease that mostly affects horses and cattle. It causes painful blisters in and around the mouth, on the coronet bands, teats, and/or sheaths. The disease is spread by biting insects.
- Visit the USDA website to learn more about VSV and news on current outbreaks.
- PHOTOGRAPHS OF SYMPTOMS IN HORSES click here
- PHOTOGRAPHS OF SYMPTOMS IN CATTLE click here
West Nile Virus (WNV) in Colorado
WNV is a disease spread by mosquitoes that results in neurological disease in horses (and humans). Vaccination is available for this disease!
- Visit the USDA website and Colorado Dept. of Agriculture website to learn more about WNV and current outbreaks.
- Visit the AAEP website to learn about vaccination against WNV for your horse. Vaccination is pertinent at reducing infection and/or severity of clinical signs.
- Check out this blog on WNV by Dr. Kari Bevevino of Roaring Fork Equine Medical Center.
Disaster preparedness for you and your horse
- Click here for a report from the ASPCA : Horses in Disasters
- Click here for a report from American Association of Equine Practitioners:
- Click here for a report from The Horse: Natural Disaster Are you and your horse ready for Emergency Evacuation?
Individual slides can be selected by clicking the individual thumbnails above.
COVID-19 is still around!
- Click here for tips on preventing the spread of COVID-19 at equestrian facilities
- What happens to your horses or your stable if YOU GET SICK? http://equinediseasecc.org/Content/ContentDocs/COVID-19-Caring-for-your-horse-during-a-pandemic-finalxx.pdf.
- Download this poster to put in your barn to help remind other of COVID-19.
Send us any illustrations you love that have to do with taking care of our horses....remember, some illustrators may not build a perfect illustration, cartoon, check-list but their intentions are good. Illustrative art is a decoration, interpretation, or visual explanation of a text, concept, or process, designed for integration in print and digitally published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, video games and films. We will have these available to download soon.
12.21.2023
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Roaring Fork Valley Horse Council
PO Box 127
Snowmass, Colorado 81654
* 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization *
[email protected] Facebook: www.facebook.com/keephorsesontrails/
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Roaring Fork Valley Horse Council
PO Box 127
Snowmass, Colorado 81654
* 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization *
[email protected] Facebook: www.facebook.com/keephorsesontrails/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/rfvhc/