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Placing horses on pasture and the presence of companion animals may both help to reduce stable vices. Stable vices are stereotypies of equines, especially horses.They are usually undesirable habits that often develop as a result of being confined in a stable with boredom, hunger, isolation, excess energy, or insufficient exercise.
Free-roaming mustangs (Utah, 2005). Horse behavior is best understood from the view that horses are prey animals with a well-developed fight-or-flight response.Their first reaction to a threat is often to flee, although sometimes they stand their ground and defend themselves or their offspring in cases where flight is untenable, such as when a foal would be threatened.
Stable vices; stereotypies of equines, especially horses. [33] Stereotypy (non-human); repeated, relatively invariant behaviours with no apparent purpose (multiple types). [34] Stress/anxiety; behaviours associated with being exposed to a stressor (e.g. loss of appetite, social withdrawal). [35]
A horse cribbing on a wooden fence, note anti-cribbing collar intended to reduce this behavior and tension in neck muscles. Cribbing is a form of stereotypy (equine oral stereotypic behaviour), otherwise known as wind sucking or crib-biting.
A behavior exhibited in horses left for long periods in a stall, where they repetitively walk around the confines of the stall. [18] See also weave. brand, branding Marking a horse (or other animal) by burning the skin with a hot iron, or alternatively with a frozen implement (called freeze branding). The skin may be balded, or the hair may ...
Behavior of a horse facing a box containing food: Sniffing the lid, lifting the lid, opening the box, eating the food. Excerpted from the article Do horses expect humans to solve their problems? (2012). [S 59] Another major limitation in cognitive studies is the insufficient consideration of the horse's emotional state.
Providing visual stimulation (an open window to the outside) to a stalled horse reduces risk of stable vice occurrence. Weaving is a behaviour in horses that is classified as a stable vice, [1] in which the horse repetitively sways on its forelegs, shifting its weight back and forth by moving the head and neck side to side.
When a male horse thought to be a gelding exhibits aggressive or sexual behavior, cryptorchidism is suspected. Sometimes, a horse with an unknown medical history is actually a stallion with both testicles retained. [2] An alternate definition of ridgling is a partially castrated horse. [1]