February 2011

NJF-seminar 437 on Housing and management of horses in Nordic and Baltic climate will be held from 6th to 7th of June 2011 in Reykjavik, Iceland.

The seminar will include sessions on horses and the outdoor and indoor environment, management of horses and the indoor and outdoor environment, and buildings for horses and people.

For more information about the seminar, click here...

EAAP conference, Session on Feeding practices and social constraints in horse housing

The 56th EAAP congress will be held in Stavanger, Norway, August 29th to September 2nd, 2011, and the horse session will be on Monday, 29th of August. The horse session will focus on, for example how to manage the benefits of group housing without compromising feeding management, the challenge of providing horses with social contact without the risk of injuries etc.

For more information on the EAAP congress, click here...

November 2010

Final Seminar

Friday 26th November 2010

at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden

In the final seminar of this 4 year collaborative research project, researchers present their results and discuss how findings could be implemented in practice. Please register until 22nd November by email to Emelie.Lindqvist@adm.slu.se.

Topics:

• How housing facilities and horses' temperament relate (Kathalijne Visser‐Riedstra, Wageningen UR Livestock Research, The Netherlands)
• Injury scoring, taking a horse out of the group, group composition (gender) and
  paddock enrichment (Cecilie M. Mejdell, National Veterinary Institute, Norway)
• The behaviour of horses in stable versus dynamic groups (Janne Winther Christensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark)
• The effect of an adult horse in groups of young horses (Eva Søndergaard, Agro‐Tech, Denmark)
• Research: the Finnish part of the project (Seppo Hyyppä, Agrifood Research, Finland)
• Reactions of horses to mixing and separation (Elke Hartmann, SLU, Sweden)
• Internet survey on attitudes to group housing horses within the Nordic countries (Linda J Keeling, SLU, Sweden)

Download the Programme here ...

Map to Venue here ...

September 2010

NKJ questionnaire on group housing of horses

Nordic researchers put the topic of keeping horses in groups on the top of their research agenda. The 4 year collaborative project aims to provide practical solutions to group housing of horses that can improve horse welfare and human safety.

By filling out the questionnaire you will help us to collect important data on how horses are commonly kept and what attitudes and experiences owners have concerning the keeping of horses in groups. Your participation is anonymous.

The questions will not take you longer than 15 minutes to answer. Please indicate in which Nordic country you live (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden). You can choose to answer the questions in your language.

Thank you for participating!

Please click here to come to the questionnaire ...

Press release for the questionnaire (in Swedish) here ...