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Neonatal isoerythrolysis. Neonatal isoerythrolysis (NI), also known as hemolytic icterus or hemolytic anemia, [1] is a disease most commonly seen in kittens and foals, but has also been reported in puppies. It occurs when the mother has antibodies against the blood type of the newborn. A 7 day old foal with neonatal isoerythrolysis.
Endometrosis is more common in mares that have been used irregularly for breeding. [5] Also strict veterinary supervision increases the foaling rates of mares significantly. [5] As endometrosis is a chronic disease the mare will remain unfertile and the foal may be underdeveloped. [4]
Neonatal maladjustment syndrome (NMS) is a syndrome where newborn foals exhibit uncommon behaviors, occurring in three to five percent of live births. These behaviors can include aimless wandering, hypersensitivity to loud sounds and brightness, weakness or coordination issues, and the incapability to nurse. Neonatal maladjustment syndrome is ...
Actinobacillus equuli is a gram-negative, non-motile rod bacteria from the family Pasteurellaceae. [1] A. equuli is classified as a bio-containment level 2 organism under the U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines. [2] Biochemical differentiation tests with positive results are: catalase, urease and oxidase tests.
Foal. A foal is an equine up to one year old; this term is used mainly for horses, but can be used for donkeys. More specific terms are colt for a male foal and filly for a female foal, and are used until the horse is three or four. When the foal is nursing from its dam (mother), it may also be called a "suckling".
Animals present with acute and severe signs of colic, and multiple distended loops of small intestine, usually seen radiographically in a foal. [19] Small intestinal volvulus often occurs secondary to another disease process in adult horses, where small intestinal obstruction causes distention and then rotation around the root of the mesentery ...
If the mare was prevented from doing so, she would feel no affection for the foal and refuse to feed it, which is why it was believed that the power of love was concentrated in the hippomanes. The vulval discharge from the mare in oestrus was also referred to as Hippomanes in antiquity and was used equally for love potions and love spells. [8] [9]
Lethal white syndrome (LWS), also called overo lethal white syndrome (OLWS), lethal white overo (LWO), and overo lethal white foal syndrome (OLWFS), is an autosomal genetic disorder most prevalent in the American Paint Horse. Affected foals are born after the full 11-month gestation and externally appear normal, though they have all-white or ...