Researchers will study the effect of management and stabling conditions common in indoor competition settings to help improve the well-being of sports horses.
Researchers will evaluate if allowing social interactions between adult horses in a stabled environment enhances learning performance and trainability.
Researchers will assess which factors contribute to the high rates of compliance and retention in the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study and identify important considerations to guide future research studies.
Researchers will investigate how therapy horses respond to touch by people to improve our awareness of the horse’s experience and inform best practice guidelines for therapy horses.
Researchers will evaluate three feeding systems and availability of roughage to inform feeding management and reduce abnormal behaviors in horses kept in dry lots.
Researchers will study how mare life-history factors, including age and number of previous foals, as well as mare level of attachment to her own foal affect stress-relevant behaviors at removal of the foal at weaning