This year's Understand Horses Live event offers a programme of lectures, practical demos and training workshops on horse behaviour, physiology and training
Undesirable equine behaviour associated with a lack of forage has been discussed – as concerns are raised about owners misinterpreting learned helplessness for “coping”. “Promoting positive equine wellbeing and behaviour through diet” was the topic of a World Horse Welfare webinar last month, during which experts discussed horses’ basic needs – friends, forage and freedom, […]
Horses’ behaviour is their trying to communicate with us, and we have to listen and try to understand. This was the message from welfare, veterinary and behavioural experts, at a World Horse Welfare webinar titled “Myth-busting: is my horse being a pain or in pain?” Sue Dyson, former head of clinical orthopaedics at the Animal […]