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“We discovered that lockdown-associated factors had the potential to compromise the welfare of horses and ponies at risk of obesity and laminitis.”

Findings suggest silage could cause significant changes in the horse fecal microbiota and might be linked with metabolic issues such as insulin resistance and lipid metabolic abnormality.

From September 1, the whip will not be allowed to be used on the horse in consecutive strides at any stage of a race in New Zealand.

“Future work should focus on the first 24 hours after transport initiation to determine how immune function responds during this window.

Study in northeast Oklahoma involved repeated full-body examinations of 88 horses for ticks.

Hay supplementation reduces bacterial diversity, but a rich range of bacteria remained present, researchers found.

“Transportation can induce stress in healthy donkeys and have some effect on the composition of the fecal microbiota.”

Researchers expected that horses would generally inspect a novel object with their left eye and hence the right hemisphere of their brain. However, this was not the case.

New scale developed by Italian researchers could help solve a problem with horse transport regulation in the European Union.

It is clear that many horse welfare problems are not due to intentional abuse, but because of anthropomorphic biases, cultural and personal beliefs.