EURCAW Ruminants & Equines has added a new Welfare Topic to the website, Equine Housing and Care. This welfare topic currently contains the Scientific Review on Working Equids, and in the coming months, will feature a thematic factsheet on Confinement and restriction of movement and social contact in horses. It is accessible through the same avenues of the previous welfare topics. 

With the new welfare topic, EURCAW Ruminants & Equines has published a review on Working Equids. A working equid is defined as an equid that performs physical activity in service of the person(s) who owns, keeps or hires them. Working equids may be used in production (e.g. in agriculture, for carrying or pulling loads and transporting of firewood and other supplies, horse skidding), leisure (e.g. in tourism industry for transporting people) and sport activities (e.g. performing riding exercises, competitions, races, equine assisted therapies). This review presents information about the current environment and welfare concerns for working equids in EU member states. Management, resource, and animal-based indicators are provided. The review is currently available in English.  

For the topic, see: https://www.eurcaw-ruminants-equines.eu/welfare_topics/equine-housing-and-care/