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Brooke Ethiopia’s 17 new water projects within Ethiopia’s Oromia region include water points, troughs, reservoirs and line extensions, providing a much needed resource in areas suffering from severe water shortages.
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“There is a dangerous line between risk awareness and risk normalization, especially when that normalization takes on a celebratory or competitive element.”
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Sokólski and Sztumski breeds: “We can conclude that further maintaining of separate stud books is reasonable.”
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Giving Awards that celebrate the work of animal charities holding virtual awards this year.
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Exceptionally well-preserved fossils in an area of eastern Germany provide important insights into life in the area 47 million years ago, including the abundant horses.
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Original 30-day suspension of USEF events has been extended to May 3. And each FEI discipline will have its own task force to evaluate the impact of Coronavirus on the FEI Calendar.
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Numerous European countries, US States and New Zealand have already recognised and formalised veterinary services as “essential”, but Australia has not.
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Continuous jabbing of the horse’s mouth undertaken by the rider is described as totally out of line with all general principles of horsemanship.
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“It is good to have a decision that gives us a degree of certainty we can all work around.”
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The use of the contraceptive agent PZP can seriously compromise the natural adaptation of wild horses. This subverts the true intent of the Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act, passed in 1971 to safeguard the animals, writes Craig Downer.
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AHT faces closure at the end of the month after 75 years, following “dire financial constraints, and the economic implications of the Covid-19 virus”.
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“Archaeology is showing us more about how our ancestors survived in this desperately cold and hostile environment at the climax of the last ice age.”
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Downtime from work or competitions is a great time to spend upskilling your riding and horse care expertise.
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University of Montreal study team also identified risk factors that increased the chances of drug-resistant strains being present.
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The treatment completely eliminated eyelid sarcoids on a horse that would otherwise have needed its eye removed.
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Ponies and horses in a German weight-gain study got fat, and then they got flabby.
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First hatchings of Eastern tent caterpillars, which cause Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome (MRLS), in Central Kentucky earlier this month.
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Chinese nobility felt donkey polo was safer than playing the sport on larger horses.
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Borrowing veterinary equipment including ventilators is being considered by British health authorities.
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University specialists have been studying the impacts of horse carcass composting as an alternative to more conventional methods of disposing of a body.
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