Pattern of Social Interactions after Group Integration: A Possibility to Keep Stallions in Group

Horses are often kept in individual stables, rather than in outdoor groups, despite such housing system fulfilling many of their welfare needs, such as the access to social partners. Keeping domestic stallions in outdoor groups would mimic bachelor bands that are found in the wild. Unfortunately, th...

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Main Authors: Briefer Freymond, Sabrina, Briefer, Elodie F., Niederhäusern, Rudolf Von, Bachmann, Iris
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3559779/