August marks the beginning of the school year, changing temperatures, and end of summer horse shows! But, there is something even more important about August: it is Vitalize®’s colic awareness month. Recent studies have indicated that there are nearly 920,000 cases of colic every year in the United States alone. What is colic? Colic is pain originating […]
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How to Reduce the Chance of Colic
Colic is the number one medical cause of death in horses. There are approximately 2.7 colic surgeries performed every hour in the U.S. equating to a total economic loss to the horse industry of more 144 million dollars. Colic is defined as an attack of acute abdominal pain localized in a hollow organ and often […]