Stress response of 18-, 24- and 30-month-old sport horse stallions to a pretraining programme

Stress response of 18-, 24- and 30-month-old sport horse stallions to a pretraining programme

Warmblood sires traditionally have been presented for stallion licencing at 2 years of age, but the age at which horses are mentally fit for training is a point of controversy. We have therefore investigated the stress response of young stallions to pretraining for licencing. Salivary cortisol conce...

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Main Authors: F. Pilger, L. Kroschel, J. Aurich, C. Nagel, G. Hoffmann, U. Hartmann, C. Aurich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-12-01
Series:Animal
Subjects:
Age
Cortisol
Habituation
Heart rate
Horse
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731124003100
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