Last week’s most read posts
- The oral microbiome, new in the clinical practice of dentistry. Link.
- Grief balloon ends up scaring a pony. Link.
- The all-important pre-purchase exam of a horse. Link.
Last week’s AHD Bulletin –
- Animal Health Digest Bulletin, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Link.
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AVMA delegates pass policies on raw milk, drugs, agricultural animals
Source: AVMA, July 31, 2022. Link. “The AVMA recommends that fluid nonhuman mammalian milk sold or distributed to consumers be pasteurized and all dairy products be produced under a scientifically validated food safety program.”
New era in digital biology: AI reveals structures of nearly all known proteins
Source: Science, July 29, 2022. Link. The artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepMind unveiled the likely structures of nearly all known proteins, more than 200 million from bacteria to humans, a striking achievement for AI and a potential treasure trove for drug development and evolutionary studies.
Beloved Chincoteague ponies’ mythical origins may be real
Source: National Geographic, July 27, 2022. Link. The shipwreck-origin hypothesis, notably put forth in Marguerite Henry’s 1947 novel Misty of Chincoteague may now gain ground as the leading theory for how horses ended up on Virginia’s Chincoteague Island.
Q/A: Why can’t horses vomit?
Source: EQUUS, July 23, 2022. Link. The surprising reasons why horses, unlike fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and most mammals, can’t upchuck.
Find your Guineafowl flock – Podcast
Source: Mother Earth News, August 1, 2022. Link. Cindy Gibson of Guinea Fowl International shares the benefits and disadvantages of raising mixed flocks, as well as the pros and cons of several types of birds, with an emphasis on guinea fowl. Recorded at Belton, Texas, Mother Earth News Fair.