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Your senior horse might have chronic laminitis even though he’s not lame, obese, or diagnosed with pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID, also known as equine Cushing’s disease). A study of sound older horses has revealed that subclinical laminitis coffin bone rotation before the horse becomes lame can’t be accurately predicted by body condition, cresty neck scores, or the hormonal biomarker that points to PPID.
Advanced age alone could mean “chronic changes within the hoof capsule have surreptitiously developed without overt signs,” said Nathalie Fouché, DVM, clinician at the Swiss Institute of Equine Medicine (ISME) at the Vetsuisse Faculty of the University of Bern in Switzerland.
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ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND, FEBRUARY 3, 2021] Piavita AG has partnered with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and the University of Bern with support from the Swiss Federal Fund, Innosuisse, to pursue a research study with the goal of further developing its vital sign monitoring technology the Piavet System to detect the onset of foaling in horses. This study the largest known birth data collection project to date is titled “Piabreed: Machine Learning for Automated Ovulation and Birth Monitoring in Horses.” This year, the Piabreed Project will focus on one of the two sub projects: the industry’s need for better, less invasive, and more cost effective monitoring of foaling mares.