Low-Stress Horse Husbandry
Natalie DeFee Mendik, MA
July 2, 2024
From reinforcing behaviors to reading facial expressions, adopting welfare-friendly handling practices can improve equine well-being and human safety.
From reinforcing behaviors to reading facial expressions, adopting welfare-friendly handling practices can improve equine well-being and human safety.
Addressing your high-energy horse’s behavior using diet might involve some trial and error. Learn what you should consider before adjusting his feeding program.
Do you know what to do–and just as importantly, what not to do–if your horse displays vague, mild, or serious signs of what might be colic? Your answer could save your horse’s life. Sponsored by Kentucky Performance Products.
Follow these 12 tips to improve your horse’s welfare while on stall rest for injury or illness.
Learning to read a horse’s facial expressions and postures at rest and under saddle can help you become more sensitive to detecting pain in horses.
When do horse training methods cross the line from accepted to abusive? Despite advances in horse welfare and behavior research, abusive training still occurs.
Foal rejection can jeopardize the foal’s health—and even life—due to failure of passive transfer of immunity or severe injury.
Find out why your horse might benefit from a “dunk bucket.”
Could motion sickness make a horse reluctant to load and cause him to scramble in the trailer? Find out what the research says.
Pain behaviors in the ridden horse can range from subtle rhythm irregularities to bucking.
Researchers think certain sounds might reduce frustration behaviors in stalled horses.
After years of speculating that colic occurs more frequently in horses that crib, researchers have finally provided consistent data confirming this association.
Many situations horses face lead to chronic stress, which can result in changes in health and behavior.
What genes and coat colors are more likely to result in a spooky or reactive horse? Experts explain what we know about equine genetics and behavior.
Equine behaviorists apply a scientific lens and an analytic approach to solving behavior problems.
Can you see the signs of stress? Equine behavior experts share what to look for in your horse.
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