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The horse in the case study responded well to a combination of anti-inflammatory drugs and anti-oxidative therapy.

Wheat straw may be beneficial for horses with low energy needs, but more research is needed.

Researchers explore the potential for simple habit-forming interventions to improve the daily lives of animals.

“Spending the night in the stables would seem to impact the well-being of the horses positively.”

The known risks from soil ingestion show the need to limit this involuntary intake in order to ensure horse welfare, according to researchers.

U-Vet Werribee Equine Centre in Victoria is to receive more than $3 million to continue developing its equine lameness prevention and diagnosis program.

A new scale is developed by US researchers to help identify easy and hard keepers.

“With so many horses and ponies carrying a few extra pounds, the question is have we normalised overweight horses?”

“We know that horses alter their movement pattern when they’re lame, but we don’t know much about the functional changes in muscles that facilitate these changes in movement.”

New monitoring system assists with rapid disease detection by continuously recording a horse’s temperature and sending the data to an app.

A few simple tips can help your horse stay cool when the weather gets hot.

Researchers applied the scale to 64 horses and compared their scores to those of World Cup level dressage mounts.

Chronic pain, especially when evolving gradually, can be difficult to assess in horses, yet it may greatly affect welfare.

“We’ll be looking to the Government when something like Covid-19 hits in the horse industry as well and they won’t have a solution.”

Thoroughbreds had significantly higher behavioral scores than other horse breeds in an experiment.

“Physical issues, including even mild lameness, are more likely to factor in an end-of-life decision than issues relating to mental health.”