Welzijn

Welzijn

For specific sport discipline influences see here.
– For training method influences (regardless the discipline) see here.

Handling and General Management

• Aging and how it affects the physiological response to exercise in the horse (pdf)
• Assessment of the welfare of working horses, mules and donkeys using health and behaviour parameters
• A preliminary study of the effects of handling type on horses’ emotional reactivity and the human-horse relationship
• A preliminary study on the effect of massage to reduce stress in the horse (found no link, only references)
• Comparison of 3 methods for mixing unfamiliar horses (Equus caballus)
• Coping in groups of domestic horses – Review from a social and neurobiological perspective
• Effects of different forms of exercise on post inhibitory rebound and unwanted behaviour in stabled horses
• Effects of equine back massage pads on stress indicators by the assessment of behaviour, heart rate and salivary cortisol (pdf)
• Effects of repeated regrouping on horse behaviour and injuries
• Effects of stress on pain in horses and incorporating pain scales for equine practice
• Effects of stroking horses on both humans’ and horses’ heart rate responses
• Emotional response of young race horses to a transfer from a familiar to an unfamiliar environment (pdf)
• Exercise physiology of the older horse (pdf)
• Factors affecting the severity of horse-related injuries
• Horse reactions to human attitudes and behavior
• Improved Ability to Maintain Fitness in Horses during Large Pasture Turnout
• Investigation into the effectiveness of an equine back massage pad to promote relaxation and relieve back stiffness in horses; preliminary findings (pdf)
• Management practices associated with owner-reported stable-related and handling behaviour problems in UK leisure horses
• Managing Horses in Groups to Improve Horse Welfare and Human Safety (pdf)
• Misbehaviour in Pony Club horses: Incidence and risk factors
• On the significance of adult play: what does social play tell us
  about adult horse welfare? (pdf)
• Pattern of Social Interactions after Group Integration: A Possibility to Keep Stallions in Group (full)
• Positive interactions lead to lasting positive memories in horses
• Ten years of major equestrian injury: are we addressing functional outcomes? (research overview article)
• The Effect of Season on Travel Patterns and Hoof Growth of Domestic Horses
• The strengths of statistical techniques in identifying patterns underlying apparently random behavioral problems in horses
• The enriching effect of non-commercial items in stabled horses
• The Relationship Between Behavioral and Other Welfare Indicators of Working Horses
• The twitch in horses: A variant of acupuncture
• Towards an Ethological Animal Model of Depression? A Study on Horses

Foal Handling and Management

• Accompanying pre-weaned Thoroughbred foals while separated from the mare during covering reduces behavioural signs of distress exhibited
• Adults may be used to alleviate weaning stress in domestic foals
• Adult-Young Ratio, a Major Factor Regulating Social Behaviour of Young: A Horse Study
• Are 6-month-old foals sensitive to dam’s influence?
• Behavioral and physiological responses of young horses to different weaning protocols: A pilot study
• Behavior of artificially suckled foals
• Controlled Study of Early Handling and Training of Icelandic Foals
• Defecating behavior of a horse in a box stall (pdf)
• Effects of handling at weaning on manageability and reactivity of foals (pdf)
• Effect of mares’ dominance rank on suckling behaviour in the loose housed domestic horses
• Effects of short-term maternal separations on weaning stress in foals
• Events around weaning in semi-feral and stable-reared Konik polski foals: Evaluation of short-term physiological and behavioural responses
• Human–mare relationships and behaviour of foals toward humans
• Influence of various early human-foal interferences on subsequent human-foal relationship
• Intensive, Early Handling of Neonatal Foals: Mare-Foal Interactions (full)
• Neonatal foal handling
• Neonatal Handling Affects Durably Bonding and Social Development (pdf)
• Physiological responses in foals weaned by abrupt or gradual methods
• Sex differences in the response of yearling horses to handling by unfamiliar humans
• Stabled foals and yearlings move more inefficient than pastured horses, even when they get light training: The influence of different exercise regimens on the development of locomotion in the foal
• Temperament in preweanling horses: development of reactions to humans and novelty, and startle responses
• The behaviour of foals before and after weaning in group (pdf)
• The effects of diet and weaning method on the behaviour of young horses
• The effect of early handling of foals on their reaction to handling, humans and novelty, and the foal–mare relationship
• The Effect of Temperature, Rainfall, and Light Conditions on Hair Cortisol Concentrations in Newborn Foals
• The effects of weaning on the domestic horse

Housing

• Activity Behavior of Horses Housed in Different Open Barn Systems
• Adaptation strategies to seasonal changes in environmental conditions of a domesticated horse breed, the Shetland pony
• Analysis of Noxious Gas Pollution in Horse Stable Air
• A note on the relationship between time spent in turnout and behaviour during turnout in horses
• A note on the time budget and social behaviour of densely housed horses: A case study in Arab breeding mares
• Behavioral and physiological responses of horses to initial training: the comparison between pastured versus stalled horses (pdf)
• Behavior and physiologic responses of mares to short-term isolation (pdf) (pdf)
• Clinical Problems Associated with the Intensive Management of Performance Horses
• Competition Horses Housed in Single Stalls: Effects of Free Exercise on the Behavior in the Stable, the Behavior during Training, and the Degree of Stress
• Daytime shelter-seeking behavior in domestic horses
• Day-time time budgets of pregnant mares housed in tie stalls: a comparison of draft versus light mares
• Dissipation of heat from standing horses exposed to ambient temperatures between −3°C and 37°C
• Effects of enrichment items on activity and social interactions in domestic horses
• Endotoxin concentrations within the breathing zone of horses are higher in stables than on pasture
• Foal behaviour in a loose housing or paddock environment during winter
• Group housing exerts a positive effect on the behaviour of young horses during training
• Influence of housing on young horse behaviour, development and subsequent welfare (pdf)
• Influence of housing on weanling horse behavior and subsequent welfare
• Inter-breed variation in the horse with regard to cold adaptation: a review
• Investigation of the effect of pasture and stable management on large intestinal motility in the horse, measured using transcutaneous ultrasonography
• Loose Housing of Horses in a Cold Climate (pdf)
• Pattern of Social Interactions after Group Integration: A Possibility to Keep Stallions in Group (full)
• Preference and demand for exercise in stabled horses
• Responses to climatic variables of horses housed outdoors under Nordic winter conditions (pdf)
• Stabled foals and yearlings move more inefficient than pastured horses, even when they get light training: The influence of different exercise regimens on the development of locomotion in the foal
• Stress reactivity and coping in horse adaptation to environment
• The effect of two different housing conditions on the welfare of young horses stabled for the first time
• The influence of bedding on the time horses spend recumbent
• The Potential Effects of Social Interactions on Reproductive Efficiency of Stallions
• Thermoneutral zone and critical temperatures of horses
• Time budgets of adult Przewalski horses: Effects of sex, reproductive status and enclosure
• Water Absorption Capacity of Flax and Pine Horse Bedding and Gaseous Concentrations in Bedded Stalls

Feeding

• A forage-only diet alters the metabolic response of horses in training
• Browse-related behaviors of pastured horses in Australia: A survey
• Climatic energy demand of horses
• Continuous feral horse grazing and grazing exclusion in mountain
  pampean grasslands in Argentina (pdf)
• Density-dependent diet selection and body condition of cattle and horses in heterogeneous landscapes
• Discrimination of Water Acidity by Mature Horses
• Domesticated horses differ in their behavioural and physiological responses to isolated and group housing
• Effect of forage presentation on feed intake behaviour in stabled horses
• Effect of water supply method and flow rate on drinking behavior and fluid balance in horses
• Effects on exercise response, fluid and acid-base balance of protein intake from forage-only diets in standardbred horses
• Energy needs increase with horse performance
• Environmental effects on thermoregulation and nutrition of horses
• Equine nutrition: A survey of perceptions and practices of horse owners undertaking a massive open online course in equine nutrition
• Equine Nutrition in the USA: A review of perceptions and practices of horse owners and veterinarians
• Exploring aggression regulation in managed groups of horses (pdf)
• Feed Management of Horses Under Stressful Conditions (pdf)
• Feeding time and agonistic behaviour in horses: influence of distance, proportion and height of troughs
• Foraging enrichment for individually housed horses: Practicality and effects on behaviour
• Foraging enrichment for stabled horses: effects on behaviour and selection
• Growth, training response and health in Standardbred yearlings fed a forage-only diet
• Horse grazing under cold and wet conditions: a review
• Influence of time of food administration on daily rhythm of total locomotor activity in ponies
• Keeping horses in groups: A review
• Microbial composition pre- and post-conservation of grass-dominated haylage harvested early, middle and late in the season
• Motivation for hay: Effects of a pelleted diet on behavior and physiology of horses
• Preference of horses for grass conserved as hay, haylage or silage
• Proceedings on Equimeeting: infrastuctures with several abstracts  (pdf)
• Production and Environmental Implications of Equine Grazing
• Responses of horses to a water deprivation test
• Role of Diet and Feeding in Normal and Stereotypic Behaviors in Horses and a review of it (pdf)
• Seasonal adjustment of energy budget in a large wild mammal, the Przewalski horse (Equus ferus przewalskii) I. Energy intake. (full text)
• Seasonal adjustment of energy budget in a large wild mammal, the Przewalski horse (Equus ferus przewalskii) II. Energy expenditure. (full text)
• Selection and acceptance of flavours in concentrate diets for stabled horses
• The effects of a high-starch or high-fibre diet on equine reactivity and handling behaviour
• The effects of diet and weaning method on the behaviour of young horses
• The Effect of Feeding Two or Three Meals Per Day of Either Low or High Nonstructural Carbohydrate Concentrates on Postprandial Glucose and Insulin Concentrations in Horses
• The effect of hay net design on rate of forage consumption when feeding adult horses
• The Effect of Small Square-Bale Feeder Design on Hay Waste and Economics During Outdoor Feeding of Adult Horses
• The effects of two different amounts of dietary grain on the digestibility of the diet and behaviour of intensively managed horses
• Thermoneutral zone and critical temperatures of horses
• Use of artificial drinkers by unhandled semi-feral ponies

Stereotypies

• A preliminary answer to the question of whether cribbing causes salivary secretion
• Behavioural adaptation in the domestic horse: potential role of apparently abnormal responses including stereotypic behaviour
• Behavioural and physiological responses to an acute stressor in crib-biting and control horses
• Behaviour and stress responses in horses with gastric ulceration
• Crib-biting and its heritability in Finnhorses
• Possible influence of neighbours on stereotypic behaviour in horses
• Differences in temperament traits between crib-biting and control horses (pdf)
• Effects of environmental factors on cribbing activity by horses
• Factors associated with the prevalence of stereotypic behaviour amongst Thoroughbred horses passing through auctioneer sales
• Factors influencing the development of stereotypic and redirected behaviours in young horses: findings of a four year prospective epidemiological study
• Impaired instrumental choice in crib-biting horses
• Investigation of a relationship between cribbing behavior, owner-perceived temperament and colic in horses
• Lower learning abilities in stereotypic horses
• Management factors affecting stereotypies and body condition score in nonracing horses in Prince Edward Island
• Management factors associated with stereotypic and redirected behaviour in the thoroughbred horse
• Prevalence and Factors Associated with Abnormal Behaviors in Chilean Racehorses: A Direct Observational Study (pdf)
• Risk factors associated with behavioural disorders of crib-biting, weaving and box-walking in Swiss horses
• Stereotypic behaviours and mating success in domestic mares
• Stereotypic oral behavior in Captive Ungulates: Foraging, Diet and Gastrointestinal Function (pdf)
• Study of crib-biting and gastric inflammation and ulceration in young horses
• Suckling behaviour in domestic foals and the development of abnormal oral behaviour
• The Effective Control and Prevention of Crib-biting in intensively managed Horses (pdf)
• The Effect Of Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation On Cribbing Behavior In Horses (pdf)
• The effect of diet on cribbing behavior and plasma β-endorphin in horses
• The effect of increasing visual horizons on stereotypic weaving: implications for the social housing of stabled horses
• The prevalence of abnormal behaviours in dressage, eventing and endurance horses in relation to stabling
• The short-term effects of increasing meal frequency on stereotypic behaviour of stabled horses
• The role of the image of a conspecific in the regulation of stereotypic head movements in the horse
• The use of mirrors for the control of stereotypic weaving behaviour in the stabled horse

Transportation

• A Breed Apart: Transporting the competition horse
• Cortisol release and heart rate variability in horses during road transport
• Dehydration, stress, and water consumption of horses during long-distance commercial transport
• Effects of a 24-Hour Transport on Stress Response in Horses
• Effects of Density and Rest Stops on Movement Rates of Unrestrained Horses during Transport
• Effects of Density and Water Availability on the Behavior, Physiology, and Weight Loss of Slaughter Horses during Transport
• Effects of lighting conditions on the welfare of horses being loaded for transportation
• Effects of loading and transport on the heart rate and behaviour of horses
• Effects of Orientation, Intermittent Rest and Vehicle Cleaning During Transport on Development of Transport-related Respiratory Disease in Horses
• Effects of road transport on indices of stress in horses
• Effects of the different transport phases on equine health status, behavior and welfare: a review
• Effects of transporting horses facing either forwards or backwards on their behaviour and heart rate
• Evaluation of the rescue sling in sedated and non sedated horses (pdf)
• Horse preference for orientation during transport and the effect of orientation on balancing ability
• Physiological variables of horses after road transport (pdf)
• Stress responses of horses during a long period of transport in a commercial truck
• The effect op Lorazepam on the Horse (pdf)
• The effects of transporation on the welfare of horses
• The use of a mirror reduces isolation stress in horses being transported by trailer
• Transport stress in horses: Effects of two different distances
• Veterinary management of horse transport

Reproduction

• Immunocontraception decreases group fidelity in a feral horse population during the non-breeding season (pdf)
• Factors Affecting Dominance and Aggressive Interactions Among Castrated Male Domestic Horses (pdf)
• Formation and dissolution of the mare–foal bond
• Sexual behavior in geldings (no links, just references)
• Factors affecting gestation length in the Thoroughbred mare
• Factors which influence parturition in the mare and development of the foal