Horses need help when it comes to insect pests like flies. But, unfortunately, horse owners are in the dark about how best to manage flies because research just hasn’t been done, according to a new overview of equine fly management in the latest issue of the Journal of Integrated Pest Management, an open-access journal that […]
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The end of an era? Branding horses does not enable them to be identified
Despite increasing evidence that branding foals causes the animals stress, many horse breeders still claim that this practice represents the best method for identifying the animals. Although the debate has raged for some time, nobody has thought to pose the crucial question: how reliably can brand marks be read later? This issue has now been […]