Conversations in Equine Science Nancy McLean

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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Nancy and Kate talk about Dr. Manfredi's equine metabolic research at Michigan State University.

Reference/Link to article:

Manfredi, J. (2023). Horse health research will help humans stay healthy, too, with insights on reining in diabetes and obesity, The Conversation; Michigan State University.

https://theconversation.com/horse-health-research-will-help-humans-stay-healthy-too-with-insights-on-reining-in-diabetes-and-obesity-205185


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This week Nancy takes a look at the use of Bell Mares during the 1800s up to WWII.

Research References:

L. Proops et al (2012).Social relations in a mixed group of mules, ponies and donkeys reflect differences in equid type, Behavioral Processes.

Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376635712000654

Górecka-Bruzda A, Jastrzębska E, Drewka M, Nadolna Z, Becker K, Lansade L (2022) Female Horses are more socially dependent than geldings kept in riding clubs. Appl Anim Behav Sci 254:105714. 

Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2022.105714




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