Prevention

By taking some simple steps, you can help prevent a strangles outbreak on your farm:

Provide individual water buckets for all horses and disinfect them on a regular basis, or regularly disinfect shared water troughs
Require health certificates for new horses, including information on the horse and farm’s previous history of strangles
Require strangles testing for new horses entering your farm
Quarantine new horses for two-to-three weeks and monitor their temperature
At shows or during other travel, minimize your horse’s exposure to other horses, shared stalls, water buckets or troughs, pastures, trailers, and shared equipment

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