Easing Your Horse’s Stall Rest Stress
Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA
June 17, 2024
Follow these 12 tips to improve your horse’s welfare while on stall rest for injury or illness.
Follow these 12 tips to improve your horse’s welfare while on stall rest for injury or illness.
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Researchers think certain sounds might reduce frustration behaviors in stalled horses.
Riders and owners might miss behavioral signs of pain in their horses. The RHpE is a scientifically validated tool for assessing pain in ridden horses.
Horses that live in group pasture settings showed an increased ability to learn human cues, regardless of their relationship to the person.
The ponies in this research group learned to distinguish between 5 letters and select them on a touch screen.
Often, a horse’s behavior problems are rooted in either pain or incomplete training. Here’s what to consider.
Study results showed horses might wait for a more appealing treat, demonstrating self-control.
Researchers determined six key factors for evaluating the human-horse bond.
Results from a new study revealed some horses might associate mounting blocks with bad experiences.
A positive horse-human relationship starts with an awareness of shared goals.
Subjective measures of a horse’s performance might not always line up with good welfare.
Many equine-assisted services providers said they’d consider using retired racehorses in their programs; nearly one-third already do.
Researchers showed that three repetitions of a task per training session yielded the same results as six in a group of study horses.
Researchers studied which eye horses used to look at new objects. Their findings were unexpected.
Domestication is relatively new to horses, which is why two Italian researchers are urging competitive riders to allow their horses to engage in natural behaviors.
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