Are Equine Personality Traits Heritable?
Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA
August 2, 2016
Researchers studied personality trends in draft horses, Warmbloods, and draft-Warmblood-crosses to find out.
Researchers studied personality trends in draft horses, Warmbloods, and draft-Warmblood-crosses to find out.
Researchers learned that dressage horses have the greatest risk of locomotor problems, among other findings.
Horses spent less time resting at night during weeks they worked than they did during weeks they didn’t, scientists say.
Researchers found that hard surfaces, shallow footing depths, and compacted footing could increase horses’ injury risk.
Practical ways to improve your horse’s welfare, based on discoveries from the growing field of equitation science.
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Consider horses’ unique abilities and needs to carry out welfare-friendly, efficient training, one researcher says.
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French researchers found that the degree of that impairment depends on training method and the individual horse.
What affects a foal’s demeanor and makes him his own, unique self? Let’s have a look at what science has to say.
Researchers hope the test will help them predict laminitis risk based on ponies’ insulin responses to food.
New research has revealed that horses do, in fact, try to intentionally communicate with us to achieve certain goals.
Improving working equids’ health and welfare could help them work longer and better to the benefit of their owners.
Researchers determined that pregnant mares can abort their fetuses as a stress response to prevent future infanticide.
This practice, some international welfare organizations say, puts the horse in a vulnerable position for injury.
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