Hot Topic 🔥🌞🌦️Balancing Comfort and Welfare: Exploring Horse Owners’ Rugging Practices. Investigates rugging choices made by UK horse owners, how factors such as weather, temperature, individual traits, and owner views affect rugging decisions. There's another in the autumn!

What do you think about the use of artificial intelligence in caring for horses? Help the University of Nottingham with their survey:

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This survey looks to identify the primary equine welfare concerns across Europe (we can have our say as well!). It focuses on protection of farm animals, regulation of slaughter and introduction of animal welfare labelling:

𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝘄𝗻/𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗸𝗲𝘆𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞? This study explores UK equine keepers’ attitudes, beliefs and behaviours around worm control and resistance. Please could you spare a few moments to share your views?

What are horses trying to tell us? Dr Claire Ricci-Bonot will use the Equi Facial Action Coding System (EquiFACS) to help us learn to recognise horses' needs. Find out about AI models to recognise emotional states from facial expressions. Register FREE

Less than 2 weeks until the 2nd National Human-Animal Bond Awareness Day on Sunday 28th July! This year it's hosted at The Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth and available online

Do you have five minutes to help The British Horse Society? 🙏🙏 It's about vital regular hoof care for our horses, ponies, donkeys and mules 🐴🐴🐎🐎- finding out whether we have enough availability of qualified farriers:

For anyone involved in research and the human horse relationship - insights into everyday experiences and decision making - observations, methodology and results - supporting decision making and communication. Sign up FREE here:

We are funding a project at the University of Liverpool exploring horse owners’ and vets' decision-making around chronic pain management. It’s right up our street and we echo Dr Smith’s words below⬇️⬇️#VeterinaryResearch #VeterinaryTreatment #EquineResearch #ChronicPainManagement

Superb PhD student Amelia Cameron, University of Nottingham, tackles the sensitive topic of end-of-life decision-making. Collaboration between vets and owners helps at this difficult time, with focus on horse welfare #EquineResearch #EquineCharity #HorseHealth #VeterinaryCare

RT @NationalEWC: 📰 The @EIDS_Cambridge Q1 Report for 2024 is now available ⤵️. Includes:.🔹Horse movements from SA ➡️ EU.🔹New Variant of H3N….

So excited to share our regular research updates on active funded projects - insight into the excitement, variation and challenges of real-life research practice #EquineResearch #HorseCharity #EquineCharity #ResearchAndFunding #ResearchDissemination

CANTER research subgroup open research opportunity. Equine anthelmintic resistance: Anthelmintic efficacy in ascarids (Parascaris spp.) populations in foals and youngstock and existing management strategies on UK stud farms -

Because any horse can get Strangles and every person can make a difference. Watch Otto's story -#StranglesAwarenessWeek2024.#SAW2024.

Strangles Awareness Week (SAW) is 6-12 May 2024. This year's animation focuses on empowering horse owners to take proactive measures in disease prevention and that not all contagious horses look unwell. #StranglesAwarenessWeek2024.#SAW2024.

Abbi McGlennon - Unveiling Equine Strangles: Seven years of impactful insights from the UK’s Surveillance of Equine Strangles Network. How can we contribute towards mitigating the impact of strangles amongst horse populations? Full details at FREE signup.

Look🧐🧐at our calendar of TalkEquine webinars for 2024! Join us for Clinical Animal Behaviour case studies as well as health & behaviour topics! Full details available a couple of weeks before the event. They're all available on watchback too!

Still time to sign up for livestream!! 😀🎶🐴

Yay! ISES 2024 New Zealand - A Good Life for Horses will be available on Livestream! Register here: