Conversations in Equine Science Nancy McLean

This week Nancy goes back in history to talk about the antebellum era of racing and the impact the horse Lexington had on the nation during the turbulent pre-civil war days.

Research References/Links:

Wickens, Kim (2023). Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse. Ballantine Books, New York, USA. (416 pages.)




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In this episode Nancy and Kate discuss a 2023 paper on equine genomics and behavior traits.

Research reference/link:

Holtby, A.R., Hall, T.J., McGivney, B.A., Han, H., Murphy, K.J., MacHugh, D.E. et al. (2023) Integrative genomics analysis highlights functionally relevant genes for equine behaviour. Animal Genetics, 54, 457–469.

Available from: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/age.13320#:~:text=t%20p%20s%3A%20//d%20o%20i.or%20g%20/10.1111/a%20g%20e.1332%200


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Today's episode is about the variability of the Equine Gut Biome. Christine Sanchez has been researching the importance of biome health in all horses.

For more information contact Christine at chrisiesanchez@gmail.com

or

Dr. Tom Schell @ secondvet.com


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This week Kate and Nancy revisit the Donkey Skin Trade (ejiao) crisis and the African Union Ban of February 2024.

Research Reference/Link:

Shan Su, Ewan A. Macdonald, Nico Arcilla, Maurice Beseng, Felipe Thomaz, David W. Macdonald (2023). Characterising the links between the trade in donkey skins for traditional Chinese medicine and timber of conservation concern, Global Ecology and Conservation, Volume 46.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989423002330



Link to 2021 Donkey hide episode: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/dj6qsbfiIIb



Link to The Brooke: https://www.thebrooke.org/


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This episode Nancy and Kate interview Scott Cieslar owner of MadBarn. Madbarn is a nutrition, and supplement company that also fuels equine research. Listen in and check out the website @ https://madbarn.com/ (USA) or https://madbarn.ca/ (Canada).




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This week Kate and Nancy discuss using smartphone apps to help in the recognition of emotions and pain in horses.

Research Reference/Link

Corujo, Luis A., Emily Kieson, Timo Schloesser, and Peter A. Gloor. (2021). "Emotion Recognition in Horses with Convolutional Neural Networks" Future Internet 13, no. 10: 250.

https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13100250



Equine Pain and Welfare App:


Apple:
https://apps.apple.com/il/app/epwa/id1428507532 


Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.epwa&hl=en_US



Link to Training Program for EPWA:

https://training.epwa.nl/


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