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Activity Time Budgets-A Potential Tool to Monitor Equine Welfare?
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- Automated Activity Tracking and Space Use Monitoring of Captive Jaguars with Machine Learning.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Welfare Assessment in Equine-Assisted Service (EAS) Horses.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
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- Evaluation of Short-Term Stall Size Housing on the Behavior and Welfare of Domestic Horses (Equus caballus).Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2026Article
- Opportunities for agency in domestic horses: Applying the behavioural domain to increase equine welfare.Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2026Review
- Sleep architecture and lying behavior in horses across age groups and two housing systems: an overnight non-invasive EEG study.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
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- Assessing Equine Behavioural Responses in Equine-Assisted Services: A Field Study Analysis.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Impact of feeding strategies on the welfare and behaviour of horses in groups: An experimental study.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Anticipatory Behaviour During the Approach to Feeding Times as a Measure of Horse Welfare.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Monitoring of Non-Lame Horses and Horses with Unilateral Hindlimb Lameness at Rest with the Aid of Accelerometers.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Stress Responses in Horses Housed in Different Stable Designs during Summer in a Tropical Savanna Climate.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Proximity tracking using ultra-wideband technology for equine social behaviour research.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Behavioral Cost of Care: Changes in Maintenance Behavior during Equine-Assisted Interventions.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
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Abstract
Horses' behavior can provide valuable insight into their subjective state and is thus a good indicator of welfare. However, its complexity requires objective, quantifiable, and unambiguous evidence-based assessment criteria. As healthy, stress-free horses exhibit a highly repetitive daily routine, temporal quantification of their behavioral activities (time budget analysis) can assist in equine welfare assessment. Therefore, the present systematic review aimed to provide an up-to-date analysis of equine time budget studies. A review of the literature yielded 12 papers that fulfilled the inclusion criteria: assessment of equine time budgets for eating, resting and movement for a minimum of 24 continuous hours. A total of 144 horses (1-27 years old), 59 semi-feral and 85 domesticated horses, are included in this review. The 24 h time budgets for foraging or eating (10-6.6%), resting (8.1-66%), lying (2.7-27.3%), and locomotion (0.015-19.1%) showed large variance between studies, which can largely be attributed to differences in age and environmental conditions. Management interventions in domesticated horses (ad libitum access to food, increased space, decreased population density) resulted in time budgets similar to their (semi-)feral conspecifics, emphasizing the importance of environmental conditions and the ability of time budgets to assist in monitoring horses' welfare.
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