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How is your Horse Trivia? 

Get your Fun Facts Published! Do you know why horses can sleep standing up? Did you know they don’t have a gall bladder?  Equine Connection and Equine Guelph are partnering on an online educational initiative, “Who Knew? Fun Facts & Why it Matters.” You can have your little-known horse fact printed in a new E-book…

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Equine Guelph: An Online Portal to Unlimited Possibilities

Story by: Anya Barradas, Ontario Veterinary College Students and faculty from more than 40 countries around the world form the foundation of Equine Guelph’s online community. Regardless of their academic backgrounds, their goals or their reasons for enrolling, students from different walks of life can adapt the courses to their specific needs and interests. What…

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Horse Portal Opens Course to Youth for Free

Sickness Prevention for Horses Begins with You! We all cough into our elbow to try to keep our germs to ourselves and we stay at home when unwell, but what if you are a horse?  TheHorsePortal.ca course for Sickness Prevention in Horses is coming up faster than event season (and fly season)! For this March…

Vaccination Aiming for Optimal Immunity

April is coming and that means time for shots, right?  While there are several core boosters that are annual, if you are looking to provide optimal immunity for your horse, a ‘one and done’ approach may not be the best fit. Each March, Equine Guelph declares the month as Vaccination Education Month and this year…

Racehorse Respiratory Health is the Last Course in Winter Online Learning Series!

Equine Guelph has partnered with Ontario Racing, Standardbred Canada and Central Ontario Standardbred Association (COSA) to offer three online courses in Winter of 2023 in priority healthcare areas of respiratory, lameness and gut health. Sponsored by COSA, the Racehorse Respiratory Health course  is the final course in this winter series. The two-week online short course,…