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Managing your stallion

A stallion's psychological health should be given as much weight as physical health

By Carol Shwetz January 16, 2024

Stallions play an integral role in equestrian pursuits as they impact both performance and reproductive success. But stallion welfare is often marginalized due to historical practices, misconceptions or business considerations. Stallions often receive excellent physical care, but their basic psychological needs for social interaction and movement are frequently disregarded in favour of breeding priorities and

Horses will develop repetitive behaviour in response to stress and unmet needs.

Livestock

Bad habit or coping?

Horse Health: Coping behaviour isn’t a problem to fix, it’s a sign to look for the root issue

By Carol Shwetz January 25, 2017

Stereotypic behaviours are repetitive behaviours performed by animals with no obviously discernible function. One of the most commonly recognized stereotypic behaviours is the pacing of polar bears in zoo exhibits. Stereotypic behaviours are also recognized in horses, of which cribbing, weaving and stall walking or pacing are the three most common. Polar bears and horses

Livestock

The many reasons a horse rolls

Horse Health: It’s an eye-catching move, but it’s also completely natural behaviour

By Carol Shwetz November 23, 2016

Whenever an animal as large as a horse drops to the ground it captures most everyone’s attention. Fortunately the most common reason a horse does drop to the ground is to roll, and rolling is a perfectly natural behaviour for horses. It is both beneficial to their health and an indicator of their health. Horses

Forages, Livestock, News, Other livestock

Three meals a day are for people, not horses

January 17, 2012

Healthy eating is about more than the feeds that horses consume. The habit of eating and the way the horse eats engages it physically, mentally and emotionally, nourishing the horse beyond the nutrients and calories consumed. Modern feeding practices often stray significantly from favourable ways to feed horses. These seemingly small infractions over time contribute

Livestock, Other livestock

McLeod Highlights Cowhorse Training Strategy At RMWF Workshop

By Daniel Winters April 14, 2011

It was his first trip to town, and because horses never lie, it showed. The four-year-old stallion with less than six months of training was jumpy in front of the crowd, neighing loudly, rearing up, and throwing his head around. For a minute or two, it looked like he might be a handful. But holding

Livestock, Other livestock

Bronco-Busting Mentality Going By The Wayside

By Laura Rance-Unger March 24, 2011

Wendy Schabrel faced a difficult decision when her daughter moved away from home, leaving her three horses behind. Schabrel had helped care for the animals but hadn’t ridden much since being repeatedly bucked off by a cantankerous gelding when she was a child growing up on the farm in Saskatchewan. Still, the thought of selling

Second Harvest redirecting surplus food to those in need

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Second Harvest redirecting surplus food to those in need

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U.S. livestock: Cattle futures down, hogs rise

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Managing your stallion

Bad habit or coping?

The many reasons a horse rolls

Three meals a day are for people, not horses

McLeod Highlights Cowhorse Training Strategy At RMWF Workshop

Bronco-Busting Mentality Going By The Wayside

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