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Mazzola SM, Colombani C, Pizzamiglio G, et al. Do You Think I Am Living Well? A Four-Season Hair Cortisol Analysis on Leisure Horses in Different Housing and Management Conditions. Animals (Basel). 2021;11(7)doi: 10.3390/ani11072141.
Mazzola, S. M., Colombani, C., Pizzamiglio, G., Cannas, S., Palestrini, C., Costa, E. D., Gazzonis, A. L., Bionda, A., & Crepaldi, P. (2021). Do You Think I Am Living Well? A Four-Season Hair Cortisol Analysis on Leisure Horses in Different Housing and Management Conditions. Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 11(7), . https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11072141
Mazzola, Silvia Michela, et al. "Do You Think I Am Living Well? A Four-Season Hair Cortisol Analysis on Leisure Horses in Different Housing and Management Conditions." Animals : an open access journal from MDPI vol. 11,7 (2021). doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11072141
Mazzola SM, Colombani C, Pizzamiglio G, Cannas S, Palestrini C, Costa ED, Gazzonis AL, Bionda A, Crepaldi P. Do You Think I Am Living Well? A Four-Season Hair Cortisol Analysis on Leisure Horses in Different Housing and Management Conditions. Animals (Basel). 2021 Jul 20;11(7). doi: 10.3390/ani11072141. PMID: 34359269; PMCID: PMC8300697.
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Animals (Basel). 2021 Jul 20;11(7). doi: 10.3390/ani11072141.

Do You Think I Am Living Well? A Four-Season Hair Cortisol Analysis on Leisure Horses in Different Housing and Management Conditions.

Animals : an open access journal from MDPI

Silvia Michela Mazzola, Carla Colombani, Giulia Pizzamiglio, Simona Cannas, Clara Palestrini, Emanuela Dalla Costa, Alessia Libera Gazzonis, Arianna Bionda, Paola Crepaldi

Affiliations

  1. Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Milano, 26900 Lodi, Italy.
  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Ambientali-Produzione, Territorio e Agroenergia, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy.

PMID: 34359269 PMCID: PMC8300697 DOI: 10.3390/ani11072141

Abstract

The satisfaction of leisure horses' behavioral needs has begun to be considered a priority, linked to the awareness that horses kept in single boxes may be deprived of social contact and the possibility to perform natural behaviors. Several factors may influence horses' quality of life also in the paddock, and there are very few data on the effects of those variables on leisure horses' chronic stress, measurable in terms of activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis. Therefore, managerial choices faced by owners and stables managers are only based on experience, common sense, and anecdotal beliefs. This study assessed and compared the chronic stress levels in leisure horses hosted in structures in the same geographic and climatic area with different daily routines to verify which management strategy could be the one that better contributes to achieving the welfare of horses. Forty-seven horses were divided into three groups homogeneous in terms of sex and age: Mixed management group (

Keywords: horses management; natural horsemanship; paddock; welfare

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