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Equine Disease Prevention — What’s The Deal with Disinfectants?
COVID taught us the importance of doing everything possible to prevent the spread of contagious diseases.
Making sense of disinfectant claims can be confusing!
Along with that, advertising claims about cleaners, sanitizers and disinfectants spread as quickly as COVID.
COVID may be relatively under control now, but EHV-1, strangles and influenza are among the bacteria and virus-borne diseases we worry about for our horses and pets. Especially when traveling to shows and exhibitions where contact with other people, horses and animals is a risky reality.
Making sense of claims about what cleaners, sanitizers and disinfectant products actually do continues to be a challenge for us horse and pet owners.
Thankfully, the Environment Protection Agency has a helpful information. This includes what to look for in products for both effectiveness and safety for humans and animals. The EPA tests and regulates products that “sanitize” or “disinfect.”
Definitions and Distinctions
Per the EPA, “sanitize” means to “kill [ … ]
Dust-free horse bedding and Thymox disinfectant help busy horsewoman Jennifer Coleman live the dream.
Jen and Palantir competing in Indiana Event Association Horse Trials.
Jennifer Coleman is busy.
She works full time in her own graphic and website design business and manages the stable where she rides and cares for her own five horses and her son’s pony. Based in the Lexington area’s Paris, KY., Jen trains a few students and competes in eventing as often as she can.
With her horses’ health and time management atop her priorities, “Jen” relies on stable products that work as hard as she does.
Which is why she’s a big fan of Airlite cardboard bedding and Thymox disinfectant spray, from Green Horse Brands.
On the recommendation of event organizer and fellow stable manager Mary Fike, Jen tried Airlite bedding a few years ago.
Cardboard Bedding? Really?
Initially, the idea of using cardboard was unappealing.
“In my mind, at first, I thought ‘It’s cardboard.’ It looked odd in the muck pile after I cleaned [ … ]
Posted in Healthy Environments, Healthy Horsekeeping
Also tagged Dust-free stables, Hoof Health
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What does “clean” mean in our horse’s environment?
Horses count on their humans to keep their environment truly clean.
Tuesday, March 19 is the first day of spring and the topic of “spring cleaning” will likely be in surround-sound mode.
For horse owners, it’s a great time to think about what “clean” means in the context of our horses’ environment and their health.
Clean Air
Clean air is critical to horse’s health, happiness and performance. But it’s challenging to maintain in the equine environment, especially in the horse’s breathing zone.
Our horses’ lungs function as air filters. But the stabled environment is loaded with microscopic particles that can clog those filters.
Even before these bits of mold, mites and various allergens – aka “respirable dust” — get into the lungs, they can settle in the lining of the upper respiratory tract. There, they cause irritation that triggers mucus and inflammation. And that restricts the flow of oxygen in [ … ]
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Also tagged clean animal environments, safe disinfectants
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