Kim Anderson - Journalist


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Kim continues to combine her love of animals and journalism as a regular feature writer for the Western Horse Breeders Annual and Western Horse Online magazines. Click on the links below to read the full articles in the 2011 edition.

Prepping for a Premmie

A premature delivery can be a heartbreaking end to what had looked like a normal, healthy pregnancy because the majority of foals born before the final week of gestation will die.
Prepping for a premmie (900KB)
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Dummy foals

Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy or HIE is the relatively new buzz word thats vets are using to describe what has previously been known as 'dummy foal'.
Dummy foals (1.40MB)
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New mozzie menace

Continual rain has meant that flood waters are taking a little longer to recede in some areas - and with that has come an explosion in mosquito numbers and a dangerous increase in insect-borne viral diseases.
New mozzie menace (975KB)
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Less than perfect

So, you've found the perfect sire. He got great results on the Breeding Soundness Exam (BSE), he looks fabulous and he's everything you wanted. All systems go, right?
Less than perfect (1.41MB)
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Viral warts

Equine Papilloma Virus is specific to the horse and is just one of hundreds of common wart viruses found in mammals that are considered 'species specific'.
Viral Warts (1.37MB)
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