Management of Race Horses and Endurance Horses in Relation to Behaviour
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1. Management of Race Horses and Endurance Horses in Relation to Behaviour
  I am currently studying towards a Degree in Equine Studies at Warwickshire College. For my final year dissertation I have chosen to study the management practices of endurance horses and race horses in relation to behaviour.

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Rachel Owen
 
1. How many horses do you have on your yard?  
 
 
 
2. What type of yard do you own?
      
 
 
 
3. What breed are the majority of horses on your yard?
 
 
 
4. How many horses on your yard perform the following behaviours?
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11+
Door Banging (Kicking the stable door, with the front legs)
Wood chewing (Gnawing on wood around the stable/paddock)
Pawing/digging (Pawing/ digging the ground with his front feet)
Crib-biting (The horse grasps the edge of a fixed object, between its incisor teeth and pulls backwards engulfing air)
Wind-sucking (The horse arches his neck and engulfs air)
Coprophagia (Ingestion of faeces)
Weaving (Where the horse repetitively sways side to side, shifting weight and moving its head and neck back and forth)
Mane and tail chewing (Where the horse chews the manes/ tails of others, in the stable or paddock)
Lip smacking ( A rhythmical smacking action of the lower lip toward the upper lip)
Box-walking (Where the horse continuously walks around the stable in circles)
 
 
 
5. How many horses on the yard perform more than one of the above behaviours?
 
 
 
6. Approximately, how may hours per day are your horses turned out?
      
 
 
 
7. Where are the horses turned out?
      
 
 
 
8. Are the horses turned out?
      
 
 
 
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Approximately how many hours per day are the horses exercised?
      
 
 
 
10. On average, what type of exercise is completed for the horses on the yard in an average week? (Please state type of exercise e.g. schooling, hacking, gallops and approximately how much walk, trot, canter, and gallop)
 
 
 
11. How many days per week are the horses exercised
 
 
 
12. Are the horses stabled?
      
 
 
 
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When are the horses stabled?
      
 
 
 
14. What type of stabling is used?
      
 
 
 
15. What type of bedding is used? 
 
 
 
16.  What bedding do the horses have in their stable?
      
 
 
 
17.

When stabled are the horses able to see other horses on the yard?
      
 
 
 
18. When stabled are the horses able to have physical contact with other horses? (e.g able to touch each other’s noses)
      
 
 
 
19. How many times per day are the horses fed concentrates?
      
 
 
 
20. Approximately, how much concentrate are the horses fed on average per meal?
      
 
 
 
21. How many times per day are the horses fed forage?
      
 
 
 
22.

Approximately,how much forage are the horses fed on average per meal?
      
 
 
 
23.

What type of forage are the horses fed?
      
 
 
 
24. When are the following behaviours performed? (Please tick appropriate boxes)
  Anticipating food While eating While being tacked up During exercise When the yard is busy When the yard is quiet Other
Door Banging
Wood chewing
Pawing/digging
Crib-biting
Wind-sucking
Coprophagia
Weaving
Mane and tail chewing
Lip smacking
Box-walking
 
 
 
25. Any additional comments 
 
 
 
26.

Thank you for your time

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