The Influence of Stable Management and Feeding Practices on the Abnormal Behaviors Among Stabled Horses in Malaysia

Hanis, Farah; Chung, Eric Lim Teik; Kamalludin, Mamat Hamidi; Zulkifli, I.

doi:10.1016/j.jevs.2020.103230

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“…Only a small number of horses were kept in loose housing systems or paddocks (Leme et al, 2014;Larsson and Müller, 2018). All six box stalls selected in the present study housed their horses in separate stable boxes, similar to previous studies (Normando et al, 2002;Hockenhull and Creighton, 2010;Leme et al, 2014;Hanis et al, 2020). Horses predominantly remain housed in single stalls.…”

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“…Because a balanced diet was prepared, no coprophagy state was observed in the horses in this study. Studies of the abnormal behavior of horses on food have examined the effects of the frequency, amount, or content of the nutrients given to the animals (Willard et al, 1977;McGreevy et al, 1995a;Elia et al, 2010;Larsson and Müller, 2018;Hanis et al, 2020). Some of these studies indicated that the high number of feedings per day was found to have a significant influence on locomotor stereotypes and redirected behaviors.…”

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“…Weaving is one of the most common abnormal behaviors in horses, affecting between 1 % and 9.5 % of all horses, depending on breed, management system, and way of use (Zeitler-Feicht, 2004). Also, Hanis et al (2020) found weaving (4.19 %) to be the most common locomotory stereotypical behavior exhibited by horses. In the present study, the daily level of weaving was ranked third among abnormal movements.…”

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“…The stereotypical behavior of horses is generally classified into two main forms: oral and locomotor (Sarrafchi and Blokhuis, 2013;Roberts et al, 2017). Sham chewing, licking, lip smacking, tongue rolling, and crib biting/wind sucking are examples of oral stereotypical behavior; weaving, pawing, box walking, and head tossing/nodding are examples of locomotor stereotypical behavior (Hanis et al, 2020). The most common locomotory stereotypical behavior reported in horses is weaving, whereas wind sucking, licking, and crib biting are also common oral stereotypical behaviors (Sarrafchi and Blokhuis, 2013).…”

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The effect of being housed with a goat on abnormal behavior in horses

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Abstract. Horses in stalls generally remain in single-stall housing, so abnormal behavior can be observed in this management condition. Abnormal behavior can harm the horse's keeper, rider, or even the animal itself. The present study aims to examine the effect of goats on abnormal behaviors in horses. For this purpose, it placed six horses and six goats in the single-stall housing of the horses, one horse and one goat, and monitored them for 45 d. The research was divided into three observation phases during this time: in the first observation, the horses were left alone (0–15 d), in the second observation, the horses were left together with the goats (16–30 d), and in the third observation, the horses were left alone again (31–45 d). In the first of these three stages, 12 different abnormal behaviors were detected in horses. The determined hours (00:00–01:00, 06:00–07:00, 07:00–08:00, 19:00–20:00, 20:00–21:00, 23:00–24:00 LT) of the day for abnormal behaviors identified in six different single-stall houses were examined. The frequency of the total abnormal behavior occurring at these hours was evaluated with nonparametric statistical tests. At the end of the research, front feet playing (p=0.002), crib-biting objects (p<0.001), and box walking (p<0.001) behaviors were significantly affected positively by the goats, while there was no statistical difference in other abnormal behaviors (p>0.05). In conclusion, it can be said that goats positively affect some abnormal behaviors in horses but not others.

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“…Insufficient eating times have also been associated with the emergence of stereotypes and abnormal behavior, such as increased time spent active walking [ 6 , 27 , 54 , 57 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 ]. In contrast, management interventions providing increased foraging opportunities have shown to decrease abnormal behavior [ 24 , 59 , 61 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 ] and yield time budgets for eating analogous to their wild conspecifics [ 41 , 42 , 45 ], further confirming that reduced opportunities for foraging may be a source of stress and poor welfare for domestic horses [ 27 , 41 , 45 , 54 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 ].…”

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Activity Time Budgets—A Potential Tool to Monitor Equine Welfare?

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Horses’ behavior can provide valuable insight into their subjective state and is thus a good indicator of welfare. However, its complexity requires objective, quantifiable, and unambiguous evidence-based assessment criteria. As healthy, stress-free horses exhibit a highly repetitive daily routine, temporal quantification of their behavioral activities (time budget analysis) can assist in equine welfare assessment. Therefore, the present systematic review aimed to provide an up-to-date analysis of equine time budget studies. A review of the literature yielded 12 papers that fulfilled the inclusion criteria: assessment of equine time budgets for eating, resting and movement for a minimum of 24 continuous hours. A total of 144 horses (1–27 years old), 59 semi-feral and 85 domesticated horses, are included in this review. The 24 h time budgets for foraging or eating (10–6.6%), resting (8.1–66%), lying (2.7–27.3%), and locomotion (0.015–19.1%) showed large variance between studies, which can largely be attributed to differences in age and environmental conditions. Management interventions in domesticated horses (ad libitum access to food, increased space, decreased population density) resulted in time budgets similar to their (semi-)feral conspecifics, emphasizing the importance of environmental conditions and the ability of time budgets to assist in monitoring horses’ welfare.

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