Do horses get colds or cancer

Yes, they do.

Dunno but I assure you most horses have better health coverage than people.

Owners spend a shitload of money in food, supplements and therapies

You lost me on that one maybe it'll come to me later.

That's true, so what if we change the question to wild horses? They may not always get optimal living food, water and potential exposure to man made pollutants trash and such.

The "supplements" is what I'm getting at.

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Yes they do. Watch the tv show, The Wonderful Doctor Pol. His clinic not only sees regular home type critters but also farm animals. It’s really a pretty good show. We have dogs and watch his show often. And we have learned a thing ore two.

Opie...

Wilde animals are filled with parassites...but also medicate theirself.

Animals eat specific plants,organ meat, mushrooms,clay/dirt,pond waters etc just to treat theirself.

Just give them ivermectin! Supposedly it’s anti cancer. Shit cured my covid in 2 days so I don’t doubt it for a second. Seems like a miracle drug to me.

So cool. Humans should be doing the same but no, let’s rely on the conglomerate billionaires that are literally killing us to save us.

Well that is what I'm getting at. Dr Judy stated as much.

There's a reason animals raised by humans tend to have longer lifespans.
Kinda like how countries with access to healthcare have longer life expectancy.


Anywho.

Yes OP, Horses get sick.

That's why you'll find things in various places labelled as horse medicine. It's used to treat the animal for various things depending on what the illness is.

Naigh

Never heard of it. Always loved animal shows. What network.

Thanks for your replies just trying to get some criteria for my apple jelly. Take every 2 weeks or so.

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Ivermectin is not a “supplement” so don’t try to pass it off as one. It’s a dedicated prescription medication designed to destroy parasites in both horses and humans.

Definitely not a supplement and only anecdotal evidence so far as to it’s efficacy for treatment against Covid. Several small studies show promise as a treatment after infection, but so far nothing definitive.

As a preventative, again more studies need to happen but only anecdotal evidence to support any regimen to prevent infection. No treatment against virus has been a hundred percent but ivermectin has showed promise but very little at this point.

Certainly nothing to show any efficacy against cancer in horses or humans, and nothing to show efficacy against any cold virus in horses or humans. Most virus treatments, especially against cold viruses only act to cover or treat symptoms but do not prevent a virus.

So it seems we've covered the general health in horses but not cancer. Horses get the paste for parasites but do they get a reduced rate of cancer opposed to wild horses.

Yes. Strangles is one, it's freaking horrible. Used to be you made a incision to drain the pus so the horse could breathe.
And cancer (fun fact) pops up in mostly grey horses. It's not too common but it can happen.