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Ministerium für Energiewende, Landwirtschaft, Umwelt, Natur und Digitalisierung des Landes Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein
Mercatorstraße 3
24106 Kiel
Website: External link to the authority
Implementation of new sustainable strategies to promote equine health
The health of the horse is directly related to their well-being and takes a significant influence on the profitability of farms keeping and breeding horses. Therefore, the interest of breeders in comprehensive information on how the health characteristics of horses can be improved has grown over the years. In addition, used by the economic developments and structural changes in recent years a process of restructuring in the Schleswig-Holstein horse breed has started. Through these developments, there is an increased need for information and education of breeders around the topics horse breeding and husbandry, particularly with regard to the health of the horses. Against this background, stakeholders of the equine sector (farmers and horse breeders, consultants, veterinarians, researchers) in Schleswig-Holstein built the OG "equine health". The project aims to strengthen equine health as well as the husbandry, use and breeding of horses in Schleswig-Holstein. A new form of use of comprehensive health data and the provision of information to horse owners should be developed and established in the project.
The project was divided into four project areas: Promoting the flow of data into the central health database, establishing linear description in foals, mares and stallions, collecting husbandry and management parameters and developing and trialling a web-based information system tailored to the needs of the practice. Diagnoses and findings from 116 stallions were entered into the database. The data collection was successfully carried out at the breeding events. Every horse breeder or owner can now enter and view the results of the linear description (the linear profile) of their horse in the online application developed.
Animal husbandry
Rural development 2014-2020
Verband der Züchter des Holsteiner Pferdes e.V.
Steenbeker Weg 151
24106 Kiel
Phone: 0431-305 9660
Email: nissen@lkv-sh.de
2015
completed
164,708