Equine Behavior Problems

Deprem Sonrası Bir Safkan İngiliz Atta Gözlenen Stereotipik Davranış: Kendi Etrafında Dönme

“…In our case, the presence of shaking and noise stimuli that threatened the horse during the earthquake and the fact that it was alone in the box during the earthquake supports the literature. The frequency and duration of the box walking behaviour increase over time (Beaver 2019), and horses displaying this behaviour are exhausted, anxious, and unhappy (Houpt et al, 1996). Similar symptoms were observed in the horse in our case.…”

“…It has been reported that the rate of abnormal behaviour in domestic horses is more than 15% (Luescher et al, 1991), and this rate is higher in hotblooded horses, especially in purebred Arabian and Thoroughbred horses than in other breeds (McGreevy et al 1995;Pell and McGreevy 1999;Mills et al, 2002;Bachmann et al, 2003;Beaver 2019). The fact that the horse that was the subject of this case report was a Thoroughbred competition horse showed parallelism with this situation.…”

“…Horses want to flee when they feel threatened. If they cannot flee, they start spinning in the box (McBane, 1992;Beaver, 2019). There is no certain treatment for stereotypic behaviour.…”

La Tène Horse Remains from Alba Iulia CX 143 Complex: A Whole Story to Tell

“…Age estimation based on the central incisor suggests a minimum age of 6–7 years (as the cup is gone), while this abnormal wear on the next ones could have been an indicator of a higher age [ 36 , 37 , 38 ]. Such unusual wear patterns, as mentioned in modern veterinary sources, appear as a consequence of cribbing or some unusual stereotypical chewing patterns (maybe wood chewing) [ 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 ], thus not excluding a similar situation for the studied individual as well.…”

“…The other interesting focal point [ 41 , 42 , 43 , 46 , 47 , 48 ] was the aspects that resulted from the first lower premolar’s (306 and 406) assessment. As mentioned in many literature sources, this piece of dentition presents a special wear pattern in the case of the bit usage [ 46 , 49 ].…”