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By Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA
K
eeping those pesky flies away in summer isn’t just a job for the
horsetail. Swedish researchers have determined that providing a
climate-appropriate shelter in summer months is essential to equine
welfare—not just for shade, but also for insect relief.
“(Study horses used) shelters … during even moderate summer weather,
and offering protection, mainly because of insects, seems important,” said
Elke Hartmann, PhD, of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences’
Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Biochemistry, in Uppsala.
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In their study, Hartmann and her fellow researchers observed eight
Warmblood horses with free access to three kinds of shelters in their
individual paddocks:
• A three-wall shelter (including two solid, transparent walls) with a roof;
• A shelter with roof and three open sides (metal bars only); and
• A three-wall shelter with no roof.
During each 24-hour test, the horses were allowed to choose between
two of these three shelters in their paddock. For one day, they could
choose between the first and second type of shelter, and for the other day,
they could choose between the first and third shelter, Hartmann said.
They found that horses systematically preferred having a roof, almost
never going into the three-wall shelter with no roof. “This design could
possibly give protection from strong wind,” Hartmann said. “We wanted
to find out whether the roof is