ANALYSIS OF SURGICAL PATHOLOGY IN THE HORSE CLUB “HORSE RIDING IN POLTAVA”

Abstract

Non-contagious diseases, especially surgical ones, continue to cause significant harm to horses. Sick an-
imals lose their ability to work for a long time, their economic value and sports performance are reduced.
During the monitoring examination, the spreading, etiology and peculiarities of the course of surgical pa-
thology in horses were determined. The purpose of the research was to find out the surgical pathology of
horses’ orthopedic diseases in the horse club “Horse Riding in Poltava”. The research task was to analyze
the frequency of occurrence and determine the causes of surgical pathology of horses’ orthopedic diseases in
horses in the horse club “Horse Riding in Poltava". During the monitoring, the spreading, etiology, and pe-
culiarities of horse surgical pathology of the English thoroughbred, Westphalian, Thracian, Arab, Ukrainian
roadster and non-pedigree breeds, aged from 4 to 10 years, as well as ponies aged from 9 to 17 years, were
determined. After  that,  surgical  pathologies were  classified  according to different group,s  and  symptoms
were determined in diseased animals. Orthopedic studies were conducted in 2018 in accordance with the
methods proposed by the leading orthopedists Kyorber H. D. and Pollit K. K. The following pathologies
were diagnosed by us: bruises, white line and frog putrefaction, deformities (disruption of the plantar horn,
partial loss of periople, the appearance of sloping and sharp-cornered hooves) and eczematous processes on
the skin. Among surgical pathologies, orthopedic diseases were the most common (45.45 %), among which
inflammatory processes were most widely spread (27.27 %), the share of other forms of surgical pathology
was 27.28 %. The reasons of surgical pathology were different, but they were based on the violation of zoo-
hygienic conditions of keeping, the lack of timely orthopedic work (72.7 %), and traumatism (27.3 %). The
development of surgical pathology was accompanied by various clinical signs, which was due to the peculi-
arities of surgical pathology manifestation; in 45.4 % the onset of a chronic inflammatory reaction was reg-
istered, in 27.2 % of cases the acute inflammatory reaction occurred as a result of horse injury.