‘Ask the question every day’: why welfare is what horses need – not what we think they need

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We should not assume we know what is best for our horses – but use the evidence they give us to ask them and take all the positives from what we do.

These were key messages from a World Horse Welfare webinar on assessing horses’ welfare, presented by Jill Fernandes on 18 March.

Dr Fernandes, founder of welfare and sustainability consultancy Animal Centric...