ANS 3216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dipsomania, Coprophagia, Management System
7 Dec 2015
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What horses do with most of their time. Foraging: free ranging horses spend 50 80% of their time doing this. Loafing and resting: horses spend 20 30% of their time doing this. Play: important for behavioral, social and physiological development. Investigation: using all of the senses, helps to figure out the world around them. Resting and sleep: alert, drowsy, slow-wave sleep, rem sleep. Typically 1 hour and 55 minutes per day. Typically 2 hours and 5 minutes per day. 9 bouts of approximately 5 minutes each. Et-epimeletic: signaling desire for care or nurturing. Mares in estrus: docile in the presence of stallions, urination, winking of the vulva. Nibbling at the mare"s mane, back and croup. Behaviors that can be a result of pent up energy or being confined in a stall for too long: cribbing, weaving, self-mutilation, head-nodding, stall-walking, stall-kicking, pacing and pawing, tail rubbing. Generally a response to some form of stress: boredom, chronic frustration, medical causes.
