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Trialling Locally Made, Low-Cost Bits to Improve Bit-Related Welfare Problems in Cart Horses: Findings from a Study in Senegal

open access: yesAnimals, 2022
Bits used for cart horses in Senegal are typically made of recovered construction iron and often have defects related to design, shape, fit and metal quality. Consequently, there is widespread presence of bit-related oral injury amongst these equids.
Mactar Seck   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Responses from 1,530 working equid owners across project groups in 14 Low- and Middle-Income Countries

open access: yes, 2021
Raw data from 1530 responses to a structured interview conducted by World Horse Welfare in 14 countries where they have international projects.
Burridge, Jessica   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Long term evaluations of Working Equid Welfare Mexico data.xlsx

open access: yes, 2022
Raw data generated from equid welfare assessments and owner interviews corresponding to the paper ‘Evaluation of long-term welfare initiatives on working equid welfare and social transmission of knowledge in Mexico’.
Dafne Legaria-Ramírez (9944846)   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Cultural “Blind Spots,” Social Influence and the Welfare of Working Donkeys in Brick Kilns in Northern India

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) work across the globe to improve the welfare of working equids. Despite decades of veterinary and other interventions, welfare issues persist with equids working in brick kilns.
Tamlin L. Watson   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Not All Who Wander Are Lost”: The Life Transitions and Associated Welfare of Pack Mules Walking the Trails in the Mountainous Gorkha Region, Nepal

open access: yesAnimals, 2022
Equids in general experience transient lives where ownership may change multiple times, for working equids this can be more extreme where ownership changes are not only numerous but abrupt, and situations encountered prove difficult, diverse and tough ...
Tamlin Watson   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Pilot Serosurvey for Selected Pathogens in Feral Donkeys (Equus asinus)

open access: yesAnimals, 2020
Recent removal and relocation of feral donkeys from vast public lands to more concentrated holding pens, training facilities, and offsite adoption locations raises several health and welfare concerns.
Erin L. Goodrich   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Capture and Anaesthesia of Wild Mongolian Equids – the Przewalski’s Horse ( Equus ferus przewalskii ) and Khulan ( E. hemionus ) [PDF]

open access: yesMongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2006
Science-based conservation efforts in general, and wide-ranging equid conservation speci fi cally, of- ten require capture and subsequent handling of the subject animal.
Chris Walzer   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Use of thermography and pressure sensors to evaluate the effect of load on pack mules

open access: yesAustral Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2023
Mules performing pack work can develop skin wounds and lesions on harness related areas of the body, but also muscular and bone damage that are not always visible during clinical examination. Thermographic imaging and pressure sensors have emerged as non-
Tamara Tadich   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainability in NGO Programming: A Case Study of Working Equid Welfare Organizations

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2023
The sustainability of NGO initiatives has become a criterion by which to judge the success of programming. This study explores the conditions needed in order to achieve sustainable change by focusing on a sector that has recently experienced this shift ...
Emily Haddy   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Working equids: linking human and animal welfare

open access: yesVeterinary Record, 2020
Working equids continue to be an essential component of the livelihoods of millions of families worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.1 These animals provide a critical support system to the households that rely on them, with a central pillar of this support system being the money they generate – both directly and indirectly – and
openaire   +3 more sources

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