By providing appropriate care during early ages, important injuries such as lameness or musculoskeletal damage can be avoided, especially among competition horses. This book offers a global approach on different items to be considered by horse owners, keepers and veterinarians for assuring correct breeding and maintaining an adequate health status. Helpful information has been added concerning care, evaluation of healthiness, risk of exposure to different pathogens, as well as an update on emerging and neglected diseases. 196 p.

Series: Animal Science, Issues and Research

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• Adolfo Paz Silva, ed. Senior Lecturer, Parasitology, Zoonoses and Epidemiology. Faculty of Veterinary University of Santiago de Compostela, Lugo (Spain).
• María Sol Arias Vázquez, ed. Faculty of Veterinary University of Santiago de Compostela, Lugo (Spain).
• Rita Sánchez-Andrade Fernández, ed. Faculty of Veterinary University of Santiago de Compostela, Lugo (Spain).
  
   
• Publication date (print & electronic format): 2014-06 - Nova Science Publishers.