Performance and health in young horses

Date: 07 June ‘05; 8:30 - 12:30 hours
Chairperson

Theatre

• Testing young horses for sport and for genetic evaluations of Swedish riding horses (Viklund, Å., J. Philipsson, Å. Wikström, Th. Arnason, E. Thorén, A. Näsholm, E. Strandberg and I. Fredricson)
• Estimation of genetic parameters for two different performance tests of young stallions in Germany (Harder, B., T. Dohms and E. Kalm)
• Genetic parameters for competition traits at different ages of Swedish riding horses (Wikström, Å., Å. Viklund, A. Näsholm and J. Philipsson)
• Application of a 3D morphometric method to the follow-up of conformational changes with growth and to the study of the correlations between morphology and performance (Crevier-Denoix, N., P. Pourcelot, D. Concordet, D. Erlinger, A. Ricard, L. Tavernier and J.-M. Denoix)
• Group housing exerts a positive effect on the behaviour of young horses (Søndergaard, E. and J.W. Christensen)
• Learning performance in relation to fear in young horses (Christensen, J.W., K. Olsson, M. Rundgren and L. Keeling)
• Evaluation of breeding strategies against osteochondrosis (OC) in warmblood horses (Busche, M. and E. Bruns)
• Breed variations in the distribution of osteo-articular lesions in horses at weaning (Robert, C., J.P. Valette, S. Jacquet and J.M. Denoix)
• Genetic analyses of radiographic appearance of navicular bones in the Warmblood horse (Stock, K.F. and O. Distl)
• Effect of maximal vs moderate growth on osteoarticular development in the yearling (Donabedian, M., G. Fleurance, G. Perona, C. Trillaud-Geyl, C. Robert, S. Jacquet, J.-M. Denoix, O. Lepage, D. Bergero and W. Martin-Rosset)
• Bone Spavin in Icelandic horses (Björnsdóttir, S.)

Poster

• Evolution of haematological and biochemical reference values in the growing horse (Valette, J.P., C. Robert, G. Fortier, M.P. Toquet and J.M. Denoix)