Researchers probe handling of bog spavin in draught horses
Clydesdale horses would produce goodness from owners knowing to a greater extent than nearly the probable causes of bog spavin, a written report inward the Veterinary Record suggests.
“Bog spavin”, the chronic fluid distension of the tarsocrural (hock) joint, is mutual inward draught breeds.
The latest number of Equine Science Update reports on enquiry past times Martin Weaver together with Laura Wilant, of the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies inward Edinburgh, Scotland, who surveyed clydesdale owners inward U.K. together with the United States.
The yoke looked into the incidence of the status together with how owners dealt alongside it.
Most owners knew of the condition, but were oft unaware of its possible significance.
Of the 935 horses included inward the survey, 10 per cent were reported to demonstrate signs of bog spavin.
The owners’ approach to the status differed on contrary sides of the Atlantic. In Britain, nearly one-half of the affected horses were non investigated at all, whereas inward the US to a greater extent than than 75 per cent received some investigation, ranging from physical seek out past times the owner, yard director or veterinarian, to to a greater extent than specialised techniques.
Radiographic seek out was performed on 37.7 per cent of affected horses inward the US , but on only 12.2 per cent inward the Britain.
Over one-half of affected animals showtime showed signs of bog spavin earlier they reached i twelvemonth of age. This is meaning equally it coincides alongside the fourth dimension when osteochondrosis tends to occur.
Osteochondrosis, a disorder of os evolution which results inward harm to the articular cartilage, is the most mutual sweat of long-term articulation swelling inward immature horses showing piddling or no lameness. If untreated, the status may eventually lawsuit inward osteoarthritis together with persistent lameness.
Some of the cases of bog spavin identified inward the survey could hold upward due to undetected osteochondrosis. The authors propose that a radiographic survey of clydesdale horses is warranted to constitute the truthful extent of osteochondrosis of the hock joint.
They scrap that if to a greater extent than owners knew nearly the possible causes of bog spavin they powerfulness hold upward to a greater extent than probable to investigate together with thence position those horses alongside osteochondrosis. Arthroscopic surgical procedure could together with so hold upward offered to appropriate cases to cut the direct a opportunity of osteoarthritis.
Owner survey of tarsocrural effusion (bog spavin) inward Clydesdale horses.
MP Weaver, L Wilant.
Vet Rec (2012)170, 286
doi: 10.1136/vr.100225
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