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Do You Think I Am Living Well? A Four-Season Hair Cortisol Analysis on Leisure Horses in Different Housing and Management Conditions.
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- Opportunities for agency in domestic horses: Applying the behavioural domain to increase equine welfare.Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2026Review
- Choice for the horse is paramount: Owners' experiences in facilitating friends, forage, and freedom in their management practices.Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2026Article
- Fecal Cortisol Metabolites Indicate Increased Stress Levels in Horses During Breaking-In: A Pilot Study.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Surrogate analyte approach for the determination of endogenous cortisol, cortisone, DHEA, DHEAS in horse hair and sheep wool by LC-HRMS/MS.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Effect of Management System on Fecal Microbiota in Arabian Horses: Preliminary Results.Veterinary sciences · 2025Article
- Investigating the interplay of stressors and health in horses through fecal cortisol metabolite analysis.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
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- Global distribution and gap analysis of equine housing research: The findings so far and where to go next.Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2024Review
- Hair Cortisol and Testosterone Concentrations in Relation to Maturity and Breeding Status of Male Feral Horses.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Hair Cortisol Concentrations in Feral Horses and the Influence of Physiological and Social Factors.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- The Effect of Stabling Routines on Potential Behavioural Indicators of Affective State in Horses and Their Use in Assessing Quality of Life.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Horse Husbandry-Nutrition, Management and Welfare.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Assessment of Welfare in Groups of Horses with Different Management, Environments and Activities by Measuring Cortisol in Horsehair, Using Liquid Chromatography Coupled to Hybrid Orbitrap High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Hair Cortisol and DHEA-S in Foals and Mares as a Retrospective Picture of Feto-Maternal Relationship under Physiological and Pathological Conditions.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- The Effect of Lift Crates on Piglet Survival Rate and Sow Stress Level during Farrowing.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
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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 (
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