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Animal, 2017 Determining welfare status in a population is the first step in efforts to improve welfare. The primary objective of this study was to explore a new epidemiological approach for analysis of data from official competent authorities that pertain to ...
P.L. Hitchens +4 more
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Owners’ Knowledge and Approaches to Colic in Working Equids in Honduras
Animals, 2021 In Honduras, many families are reliant on working equids in their daily life. The aim of this study was to evaluate knowledge about, and approaches to colic used by owners of working equids in Choluteca, Honduras using a phenomenological approach.
Isabella Wild +6 more
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Animals, 2021 In recent years, there has been a growing interest in and need for a comprehensive ethogram of discomfort behavior of horses, particularly for use in recognizing physical discomfort in domestically managed horses.
Catherine Torcivia, Sue McDonnell
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Assessing the impact of draught load pulling on welfare in equids
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 About 112 million working equids are the source of income for 600 million people globally. Many equids are used for pulling loads (up to 15,000 kg per day) to transport goods.
Syed S. U. H. Bukhari +3 more
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Revista Ciencias Veterinariasn el Parque Nacional Chirripó, en Costa Rica, se utilizan los caballos de trabajo para el acarreo de materiales y equipaje al albergue de Base Crestones que se ubica a 14 km de la entrada del parque.
Ramón Batalla-Zeledón +2 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 Obesity is a growing welfare concern in modern equine populations and predisposes horses to disturbances in energy metabolism such as insulin dysregulation. However, equine metabolic syndrome has only been recognized in recent decades. Functioning energy
Isa Hallman +2 more
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Equine-assisted interventions for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder: a systematic review
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 Equine-assisted intervention therapy has a nearly 60-year history and has been shown to have a significant positive impact on various types of psychotherapy patients.
Jiaxin Li, Raúl Sánchez-García
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Factors Affecting Thoroughbred Online Auction Prices in Non/Post-Racing Careers
Animals, 2023 Racehorse welfare is a prominent, public issue which affects nearly every aspect of the racing industry. Thoroughbred care after race career completion has garnered increasing attention from the equine industry, general public, and animal welfare groups ...
Madalynn Camp +3 more
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What Is Welfare? A Qualitative Study into Perceptions of Equine Welfare of Horse Owners
International Journal of Equine ScienceWhile existing literature broadly addresses equine welfare, limited research has explored horse owners' perspectives on welfare within the contexts of ownership.
Victoria Lewis +4 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.We constructed a brain‐targeted AFn‐DPZ nanodrug delivery system and identified EphB1 as its receptor on the blood‐brain barrier (BBB). This system facilitates drug transport across the BBB and thereby ameliorates cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease.
Shilin Wen +5 more
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