COMPLEX THERAPY OF HOOF RHEUMATISM IN HORSES
Today, an urgent task in horse breeding is to find new effective and economically justified methods and means of treating inflammatory processes of horse limbs. Scientific experiments were carried out in the equestrian school in village Zavodskoy, Prigorodny District of RNO-Alania. The research object was race horses affected by hoof rheumatism. Before the experiment, all sick horses were isolated, provided with rest, good maintenance, housing and complete fortified feeding. Poor-quality and concentrated feed was excluded from the diet, and good hay, carrots, and sugar beet were added. For the treatment of hoof rheumatism, 2 groups (control and experimental) of 6 horses each were formed. The control group of horses was treated as follows: intravenous injection of 40% glucose solution, 10 % solution of calcium chloride and ascorbic acid in doses: 200 ml, 100 ml and 10 ml, in total 310 ml once a day for three days, intramuscular injection of bicillin-3 at a dose of 500 thousand IU once a day. Animals of the experimental group were administered intravenously 200 ml of 40 % glucose solution, ascorbic acid and 5 ml of 3% prednisolone solution (in ampoules ) at doses of 200 ml, 20 and 5 ml., intramuscularly - 20 ml of 50% analgin and subcutaneously - 25 ml of 1% solution of diphenhydramine and bicillin-3 at a dose of 500 thousand IU. According to the results of scientific research, it was found that the use of complex therapy of hoof rheumatism in horses causes clinical recovery of animals in the experimental group on day 3, whereas in the control group - on day 7 after the start of treatment, and also causes correction of morphological and biochemical parameters in the blood serum of the experimental group compared to horses of the control group.