Device for Studying Horses’ Lying Down Behavior Tested
Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA
March 17, 2015
The device could allow researchers to evaluate normal–and abnormal–lying behavior and how it relates to welfare.
Discussions about the welfare of our equine friends
The device could allow researchers to evaluate normal–and abnormal–lying behavior and how it relates to welfare.
Authorities are seeking whoever is responsible for tying a horse to a tree before fatally shooting the animal.
The meetings will focus on wild burro management in Arizona’s Black Mountain Herd Management Area.
A Nevada judge has dismissed a lawsuit asking the BLM to remove horses from rangelands to protect the ecologic balance.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the Badlands Horse Registry will work to place wild horses in approved homes.
A representative said Tennessee Walking Horse exhibitors are still welcome to enter classes at the open horse show.
The program includes a new primary testing lab, an audit lab, expanded out-of-competition testing, and cobalt testing.
The move follows an investigation into horse welfare issues and noncompliance with FEI endurance rules and regulations.
Issues include tax matters and racehorse drug and therapeutic medication regulation and testing.
The foundation annually supports those that develop and implement programs that improve equine welfare.
David Howman will discuss the organization’s efforts in bringing international consistency to anti-doping policies.
The legislation would require the New Mexico Racing Commission to establish rules for handling drug testing specimens.
Authorities discovered the young foal’s remains on March 5. Necropsy results are pending.
Regulators are paying close attention to this seemingly innocuous trace mineral found in B vitamins. Find out why.
The man wanted for allegedly maltreating more than two dozen horses was caught after nearly a year on the run.
The court says the BLM violated the NEPA, but didn’t violate the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act.
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