Foraging opportunity: a crucial criterion for horse welfare?

Foraging opportunity: a crucial criterion for horse welfare?

This study aimed at determining the effect of the increase of foraging opportunities on the behaviour and welfare of breeding mares housed in individual boxes but allowed outside 6 h a day in a bare paddock. One hundred Arab breeding mares were divided into two groups of 50 according to the treatmen...

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Main Authors:	H. Benhajali, M.-A. Richard-Yris, M. Ezzaouia, F. Charfi, M. Hausberger
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2009-01-01
Series:	Animal
Subjects:	welfare time-budget mare social behaviour foraging opportunities
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731109004820

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