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Several years ago, after I started working with Temple Grandin at Colorado State, I was working part-time training and shoeing horses to fund my hair whorl studies; I was fortunate to find and gain the trust of the owner of a first-rate showing jumping barn in Colorado that gave me so much work that my […]
This chart shows common trimming mistakes farriers frequently make that can cause bio-mechanical imbalances often missed or mistaken for pathological conditions by veterinarians and other paramedical practitioners. The purpose of this post is to educate the public. It serves as a plea to return to a time when every horse ailment did not indicate some […]
Look at the shoeing on this x-ray. The Golden Rule of Horseshoeing is to “Shape the shoe to fit the foot and not the foot to fit the shoe.” The shoe set back from the toe in this image exemplifies what not to do. The toe is filed back to meet the shoe. Don’t let […]
Almost 20 years after this paper was published, the debate continues over whether large animals like cattle and horses suffer from pain like humans. The issue is complicated because when cattle or horses suffer injury, they often hide the pain. Hiding pain is a behavior that evolved to protect animals from predators during times of injury or sickness. This article argues that rats, cats, dogs, horses, and cattle can suffer from long-term pain chronic pain. All the same, when assessing suffering, fear stress should be considered crucial as suffering induced by pain. Both fear and pain can cause suffering.
Falling on Concrete Causes “Un-seen” injuries in Cattle “Falls” on slippery floors are criteria measured during Humane Handling Audits in U.S. and E.U. Slaughterhouses. According to the AMI (American Meat Institute) Guidelines, 1% or fewer falls where the body touches the ground are acceptable, more than 1% is not OK, and 5% or more indicates […]
Temperament is a heritable pattern of thinking, emotion, motivation, and behavior influenced by experience. In cattle, there are practical and valuable measures available to determine temperament. Record the measurements discussed here while performing routine handling. When making breeding or culling decisions, repeat these measures three times for accuracy. Temperament is stable over time, so more […]
FOLKLORE AND SCIENCE History is full of examples of cultural knowledge lost by one culture, then re-discovered by another culture, then lost again, only to be discovered later by someone else. Facial hair whorls in animals may be one example. Folklore in Asia For thousands of years, Chinese folklore used facial features and hair whorls […]
