By Mayo Clinic Staff. An intravenous pyelogram (PIE-uh-low-gram), also called an excretory urogram, is an X-ray exam of your urinary tract. An intravenous pyelogram lets your doctor view your kidneys, your bladder and the tubes that carry urine from your kidneys to your bladder (ureters).
The silver, silver dapple, chocolate flax or Taffy gene. Silver, or silver dapple is the common term used for horses with a dilution gene that works to dilute black pigment. The gene usually causes a partial lightening of black pigment in the body coat and a more extreme lightening (or âsilveringâ) of the mane and tail.
Laminitis is a condition of the foot that can become very painful in horses. It is when the coffin bone and the inner hoof wall begin to separate from each other.The coffin bone is attached to the hoof wall by two interlocking layers of connecting tissues called laminae.auses of Laminitis. There are many causes of Horse Laminitis that have been identified. The most common cause is the sudden and excessive ingestion of non-structural carbohydrates (i.e. sugars and starches). This is where a horse eats too much grain or lush grass and cannot digest all of the carbohydrates.