A Review of Equine Sleep: Implications for Equine Welfare [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022 Sleep is a significant biological requirement for all living mammals due to its restorative properties and its cognitive role in memory consolidation.
Sebastian D McBride, Linda Greening
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Champing at the Bit for Improvements: A Review of Equine Welfare in Equestrian Sports in the United Kingdom [PDF]
Animals, 2022 Equestrian sports, including racing (e.g., flat, steeple-chasing, harness or donkey derby); show-jumping; cross-country; dressage; polo; polocrosse; endurance; carriage driving; vaulting and hunting; are hugely popular in the UK, and they involve a ...
Tim Q Holmes
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Activity Time Budgets—A Potential Tool to Monitor Equine Welfare? [PDF]
Animals, 2021 Horses’ behavior can provide valuable insight into their subjective state and is thus a good indicator of welfare. However, its complexity requires objective, quantifiable, and unambiguous evidence-based assessment criteria.
Florien Jenner +2 more
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Improving Equine Welfare through Human Habit Formation [PDF]
Animals, 2021 This paper explores the potential for interventions to develop pro-animal welfare habitual behaviours (PAWHBs) in people to improve the lives of animals.
Ruth Sims
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COVID-19 impacts equine welfare: Policy implications for laminitis and obesity. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact human health and welfare on a global level. In March 2020, stringent national restrictions were enforced in the UK to protect public health and slow the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Restrictions were likely to
Ashley B Ward +8 more
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An exploration of industry expert perception of Canadian equine welfare using a modified Delphi technique. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The diversity of sectors that comprise the equine industry makes reaching a consensus regarding welfare issues a challenge. To allow for productive discussion, equine professionals (n = 34) chosen to represent the diverse specializations from across ...
Cordelie DuBois +3 more
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The 3Fs as conditions of being: relational ontology and equine welfare in disaster response and reconciliation [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceDisaster relief work requires the collaboration of many stakeholders and can be viewed through a One Health lens, emphasising transdisciplinarity and an openness to different ways of knowing as well as an appreciation of the interdependence of human ...
Dana Grinde
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Examining Canadian Equine Industry Participants’ Perceptions of Horses and Their Welfare
Animals, 2018 The diversity of the Canadian equine industry makes determining baseline attitudes and beliefs a challenge. Adult members of the Canadian equine industry (n = 901) participated in an online survey to report demographic information and views on the role ...
Cordelie DuBois +2 more
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Improving working equine welfare in 'hard-win' situations, where gains are difficult, expensive or marginal. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Brooke is a non-government organisation with working equine welfare programmes across Africa, Asia and Latin America. In 2014, staff from ten country programmes were asked to identify 'no-win' situations (subsequently reframed as 'hard-wins')-where ...
Joy Pritchard +2 more
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How Happy Are Equine Athletes? Stakeholder Perceptions of Equine Welfare Issues Associated with Equestrian Sport [PDF]
Animals, 2021 Carol Hall +2 more
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