{"id":5508,"date":"2012-04-17T23:01:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T16:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5508"},"modified":"2019-03-23T23:26:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T05:26:39","slug":"drought-brings-outbreak-of-horse-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/drought-brings-outbreak-of-horse-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought brings outbreak of horse disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW ORLEANS<\/strong> \u2014 Agriculture officials in Arkansas and Louisiana have warned veterinarians to watch for signs of a potentially fatal horse disease if there&#8217;s another drought this year.<br \/>\nThe disease is often called pigeon fever because basketball-sized abscesses in the chest and abdomen can give horses a pigeon-breasted look. It&#8217;s also referred to as dry-land strangles, as cases seem to spike in dry weather.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/nation-world\/drought-brings-outbreak-of-1419463.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horse owners such as Kathryn Loewer, who gives riding lessons, runs horsemanship camps, sponsors a youth drill team and boards horses at Soaring Spirit Ranch near Crowley, don&#8217;t always spend the money to have the state lab confirm their animals&#8217; diagnoses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[733,738,734,737,735,724,736],"class_list":["post-5508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease-outbrake","category-industry","tag-arkansas","tag-kathryn-loewer","tag-louisiana","tag-louisiana-state-university","tag-new-orleans","tag-pigeon-fever","tag-sam-irwin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8864,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions\/8864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}