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Significance of Group Composition for the Welfare of Pastured Horses
Animals, 2019 We explore how herd composition and management factors correlate with frequencies of social interactions in horse groups. Since the welfare of horses correlates with low aggression levels and social contact opportunities, information of this kind is ...
Hrefna Sigurjónsdóttir +1 more
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Animals, 2019 The structure and changes occurring to horses’ teeth during ontogeny are not only used to assess the degree of somatic maturity but also the development of universal patterns and is therefore used to determine the age of horses. Research shows that
Jarosław Łuszczyński +3 more
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First Swedish case of fatal equine parasitic encephalitis by Halicephalobus gingivalis
Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, 2023 Background Halicephalobus gingivalis is a nematode with zoonotic potential which can cause fatal opportunistic infections in various mammals. The parasite has never been diagnosed in Sweden, in any species, prior to the presented case.
Karin Maria Olofsson +7 more
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Ten years of the horse reference genome: insights into equine biology, domestication and population dynamics in the post-genome era. [PDF]
, 2019 The horse reference genome from the Thoroughbred mare Twilight has been available for a decade and, together with advances in genomics technologies, has led to unparalleled developments in equine genomics.
Bellone, R +3 more
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Oath formulas in the Poetic Edda [PDF]
, 2017 This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standpoint with the aim of deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in
Reis, Jacob Robert
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Intradermal Challenge of Icelandic Horses in Norway and Iceland with Extracts of Culicoides spp. [PDF]
Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, 1988 A skin test survey was carried out in Icelandic horses in Norway and Iceland using extracts of Culicoides spp. as antigen. Eleven horses with recurrent seasonal dermatitis reacted with an immediate hypersensitivity response to intradermal challenge with antigen.
H J, Larsen, S H, Bakke, R, Mehl
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Reservoirs and radiocarbon: 14C dating problems in Myvatnssveit, Northern Iceland [PDF]
, 2007 This paper examines 2 potential sources of the radiocarbon offset between human and terrestrial mammal (horse) bones recovered from Norse (~AD 870–1000) pagan graves in Mývatnssveit, north Iceland.
Ascough, P.L. +8 more
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Equine Veterinary Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Background Bone grafting in equine medicine offers a promising contribution to treating orthopaedic developmental diseases and chondral, osteochondral and segmental bone defects. Among grafts, synthetic bone substitutes—alloplastics—show favourable biological properties addressing numerous limitations presented by autografts, xenografts and ...
Katarzyna Skierbiszewska +6 more
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Temporal and spatial variations in freshwater 14C reservoir effects: Lake Myvatn, Northern Iceland [PDF]
, 2010 Lake Mývatn is an interior highland lake in northern Iceland that forms a unique ecosystem of international scientific importance and is surrounded by a landscape rich in archaeological and palaeoenvironmental sites.
Ascough, P.L. +10 more
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Transport of horses for slaughter in Iceland
Animal Welfare, 2015 AbstractThere is interest in the transportation of horses (Equus caballus) to slaughter and a need to assess the welfare implications of this practice. Forty-six loads of 7-35 horses transported for 0.33 to 3.10 h to a slaughter plant in Iceland were studied.
RC Roy +3 more
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