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Equids in Europe are being used in areas such as agriculture, vineyards, forest, urban environments and other activities. This webinar is an excellent opportunity to explore the reality in Europe around working equids.

This webinar includes three sections:

Pit Schlechter (European Draught Horse Federation) will start the webinar off by talking about the current situation facing working equids.

Erchard Schroll, (Farmer/Logger) will cover the challenges and opportunities, talking about his experience as a professional logger and farmer using working horses including harness and implements.

A panel discussion about the situation, challenges and opportunities facing working equines in Europe with Joao Rodrigues (Reseach and operational support), alongside Erhard Schroll and Pit Schlechter.

Running time: 70 minutes

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Join three of Europe's leading experts on animal traction as they explore the use of working equids in Europe.

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Learn about tetanus, a non-contagious disease caused by bacteria in the environment which can infect wounds and cuts.

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Find out the various problems and cures that can occur to your donkeys hooves and how to keep your donkeys’ feet healthy.

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Decisions surrounding euthanasia are largely based on an animal still having an acceptable ‘quality of life’. A good quality of life is something that we want for all (animals) donkeys, it means a life free from pain and discomfort that is enriching and enjoyable.

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Biosecurity and infection control for donkey owners

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Biosecurity refers to procedures or measures to protect humans and animals against infection. Find our guidance here.

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The Clinical Companion of the Donkey is a revised version of The Professional Handbook of the Donkey, produced as an easy reference book for clinicians and other professionals to inform and educate, and improve the health and welfare of donkeys worldwide.

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African horse sickness is a deadly disease that originates in Africa and can spread to other countries. It can infect all equids.

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We deal with many incoming enquiries about feeding donkeys from Donkey Guardians, donkey carers and other animal charities and veterinary practices. We have put together the answers to the most common questions when it comes to feeding straw to your donkey.

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Accurate body condition scoring is a hands-on process for feeling the amount of muscle and fat that are covering the donkey’s bones. Use our chart as a guide to determine a donkeys body condition score.

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Donkeys have specific needs when it comes to stabling. Based on our extensive experience and research, this factsheet provides useful measurements to help you prepare a stable for your donkey.

The Donkey Sanctuary has produced this guide to help with stable measurements for your donkeys, find out the optimum stable sizes and layouts to ensure your donkeys' safety and well-being.

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The Donkey Sanctuary has produced this guide to help with stable measurements for your donkeys, find out the optimum stable sizes and layouts to ensure your donkeys' safety and well-being.

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Compassionate Handling for Life Pocketbook 

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This resource supports compassionate handling practices, positive human-animal interactions and better animal welfare.

It includes key equine behaviour and handling information. It is designed to support in-person training and mentoring. It expands on Brooke’s Guiding Principles to Handling with Compassion.

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Brooke Academy for Working Equids: Animal Health and Behaviour modules

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Brooke Academy for Working Equids: Animal Health and Behaviour modules

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You will need to sign up for a free account to access these courses. Available courses include: Animal experiences, Modalities of equine expression, Equine attention, Recognising positive equine emotions, Recognising negative equine emotions, Equine stress, Horses-donkeys-mules: Key behavioural differences.

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© The Brooke Hospital for Animals 2024. 2nd Floor, The Hallmark Building, 52-56 Leadenhall Street, London, EC3A 2BJ. Registered charity in England and Wales (Charity No. 1085760) and Scotland (Charity No. SC050582). Company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (4119581).

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Working Equid courses at The Donkey Sanctuary

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Working Equid courses at The Donkey Sanctuary

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Our skilled and experienced team of welfare advisers are on hand to give advice and appropriate support during office hours. If you’re having problems caring for your donkeys or mules, please contact our welfare team who will be very happy to discuss your circumstances and how we might be able to help.

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Brooke Academy for Working Equids: Interactive course on the equine clinical exam

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Brooke Academy for Working Equids: Interactive course on the equine clinical exam

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Resources to facilitate working with communities to bring about positive changes in animal welfare

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A Facilitator’s Guide to Community-based Approaches for Changing Behaviour to Improve Animal Welfare This Communities for Animals (C4A) guide is a resource for community faciltiators informed by Brooke’s years of expertise working with communities in different countries and contexts around the world, as well as recognized best practices in community engagement and development, and the […]

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A series of resources to support the safe, kind and compassionate handling of working equids

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Why is handling important?

For most animals, handling is essential for their management and healthcare.

For working animals, handling is a huge part of their lives. These animals work and live alongside people, meaning that handling is one of the most frequent events they experience.

If handling is compassionate it can be an enjoyable experience for animals. In fact, handling can be a way to increase the number of positive experiences that an animal has across its lifetime.

An equine vet is one of the most risky professions

This is equally true for the people working alongside the animals. Working with animals can be extremely dangerous, and in the UK being an equine vet is one of the most risky professions, with a higher rate of accidents than firefighters or prison workers (British Equine Veterinary Association, 2018). Yet many will know the joy it feels to have positive interactions with animals, and research has shown multiple beneficial effects of human-animal interactions (Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 2006).

Brooke's approach to animal handling

Brooke has long been committed to undertaking and promoting welfare-friendly animal handling practices and finding new ways to achieve this, given the constraints and realities in the field. We address the challenges we face through:

1. Educating animal health practitioners

We educate animal health practitioners via our mentoring work with vets, paravets, and farriers; and through providing trainings and workshops to trainee healthcare providers.

2. Integrating handling into systems and institutions

Handling is integrated into the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial Code (Chapter 7.12, on the Welfare of Working Equids), which all member countries must implement. We provide training to help countries implement these codes, and also work to integrate handling into the curriculums of training institutions and healthcare education for the new generation of animal healthcare providers.

3. Working with communities

We work with communities to find solutions to their challenges, such as making rope headcollars, using welfare-friendly ramps at equine fairs, and running community training sessions.

4. Leading by example

Compassionate handling is integral to our culture at Brooke and we invest time and money into training all Brooke staff and partners in handling, committing to continual improvement.

This work has meant that we have consistently seen successful improvements. While we know that through this current approach we can improve the practical handling skills of many people who own and work with equines, having a positive impact on many animals across the world, it is vital that we fully address the root cause of the challenges that working equines and their owners are experiencing.

From our experience, the root causes are wide and varied. In many cases, there is a lack of knowledge or understanding, which is quite effectively tackled with group training. Other times, the root causes are much more complex and are determined on an individual level. The more we learn about this vital area of work, the more we see ways to make further and long lasting improvements.

The handling challenges we see internationally are wide ranging and extensive. They include extreme use of force and punishment, animals displaying hypersensitive behaviours (extreme responses to their environment), and animals that cannot be approached or handled at all.

Causes of these behaviours include:

Poor animal management

The basic daily needs of the animals are not being met. For example, horses are kept tethered in isolation for the majority of their lives, and may even be hobbled during work. This leaves them unable to exercise movement and normal behaviours.

Harmful working methods

Outdated methods, such as punishment techniques of beating and food/water restriction, may be used, and animals may work and be exposed to harmful methods from a young age.

Lack of understanding about animal training

Animals are not sufficiently prepared for the things they will experience in their working lives. During veterinary treatment, for example, animals may not know how to act (such as lifting their leg when asked, or standing still for an eye exam).

Owners believing negative behaviours are normal

Some owners also actively want their animals to act in this way. They believe challenging behaviours indicate their animal is strong; or if their animal is difficult to handle, nobody else will borrow/touch/steal them.

Limitations of healthcare professionals

There is a limit on the ability of healthcare professionals to modify the behaviour of animals who are experiencing a poor mental state because their basic needs are not being met. However skilled a person is in handling, they will never be able to overcome these challenges in the short space of time offered within a veterinary consultation.

How does handling relate to welfare?

Suffering as a result of poor handling can occur daily, and over time can cause long-term mental and physical damage to an animal, particularly working animals that experience high levels of human interaction.

Physical impact may be seen in wounds or poor physical health.

Psychological impact is seen in fear, persistent anxiety, poor learning, and in the reactions of animals to human contact, which can lead to difficulties for humans when working with the animal.

Compassionate handling can have huge positive impacts on an animal's welfare, and developing good human-animal interactions focuses on mental welfare of equids, as well as their physical health. This goes beyond the alleviation of suffering and recognises the importance of animals and people having positive experiences, which are essential for a good life.

Handling should be an act of kindness and compassion

To strike an effective balance between alleviating the immediate suffering of animals and working in a sustainable manner that prevents the issues we face from arising in future, we need to work on new strategies to tackle them. This is what Brooke's ongoing Compassionate Handling Project aims to do. By the end of the project, we will better understand the impact of this aspect of our work, what works, what doesn't work, why, and our key priorities for the future.

Compassionate handling guiding principles

Animals are sentient beings with their own motivations and agendas, and when working with them we must establish a partnership, trust, and a common language. Our handling methods are based on the application of current science, but putting theory into practice is difficult - particularly in the challenging contexts that Brooke works in. There is not one 'right' way of doing things that works in all situations. Instead, we must apply our experience and knowledge, guided by our principles.

Our Compassionate Handling for Life Guiding Principles help anyone who handles animals or who works with animal handlers - such as vets, mentors and animal healthcare providers - make decisions in these situations. This practical and succinct approach explains clearly how and why handling should always be #AnActOfKindness and compassion for all animals.

Download the complete guide:

Equine, Livestock and Pet Facts

We have put together evidence-based fast facts and useful tips about handling animals, which you can download below.

The factsheets are a good introduction to how important handling is, and the impact it can have on the lives of animals, put in easy-to-digest facts and tips. They're great for learning about animals that you might not have worked with before, or to get some new information about those that you do!

They also summarise some of the scientific research in this area, in a simple way, offering an evidence-based approach to working with, and handling animals.

How would you use the factsheets?

As a learning aid or tool, when working with other professionals

Sharing knowledge with those in the field

Easy-to-digest education for kids

As a fun way to get others talking about a topic that can have real impact on the lives of animals

To gain understanding of some of the scientific evidence about handling

Influenced by our experience of working with and caring for animals and through research contributed by the many scientific disciplines that have an interest in animal welfare, our understanding of animals and their welfare is ever evolving. Thus, our work here at Brooke will continue evolving too.

Compassionate handling in Action

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The Donkey Sanctuary, Good harness guide

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Foreword

Harness is a very simple yet complicated topic. It's simple in that it refers to the way a power source, in our case a donkey, is attached to a load, be it a cart, packsaddle or rider. It's also simple in that, as long as certain basic rules are followed, it is straightforward. Unfortunately, these simple techniques, when acting together, can become quite complicated.

I've tried to show how harness should work in a mainly pictorial way to overcome language and literacy problems. I've also added some suggestions in 'trainer's notes' at the back of the leaflet, which in the past have helped me to explain to donkey owners how harness works

I try to use local materials and construction techniques whenever possible; it's not always easy to find these, but I'm becoming more and more certain that most of the donkeys' harnessing problems are a result of modern living. If you talk to the elders in any community you'll often find that their donkeys didn't have the massive sores that we see now, and one of the reasons was that the harness was carefully made from natural fibres, and the people had a far greater understanding of both the harness' and the donkey's capabilities.

Look a little deeper and you'll often find people who can remember how to make this harness, or at least what plants were used to make the materials. I usually learn as much as I teach in any of these communities, and I always try to remember that however much I may think I know, I don't spend my life working with donkeys in the same way as the donkey owners do, and can never fully understand the whole picture.
Chris Garrett International harness consultant The Donkey Sanctuary

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The International Coalition for Working Equids

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Equid Assessment, Research and Scoping (EARS)

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Equid Assessment, Research and Scoping (EARS): The Development and Implementation of a New Equid Welfare Assessment and Monitoring Tool

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Animal welfare is a global concern which receives close public scrutiny. Numerous non-profit and non-governmental organisations exist to address problems relating to poor animal welfare, but there are multiple challenges surrounding how animal welfare…

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Brooke Working Equid Veterinary Manual

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How to work with donkey feet - handling issues

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Brooke Animal Welfare Indicators Repository

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Brooke's animal welfare indicators are used worldwide to assess working equids. We are now sharing these resources to enable others to learn from our experience and utilise the indicators to measure and improve equine welfare around the world. There is no cost to register and gain access to the material on this site - just log in and start downloading.

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Use of Qualitative Behaviour Assessment as an Indicator of Welfare in Donkeys

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Use of Qualitative Behaviour Assessment as an Indicator of Welfare in Donkeys

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Indicator of Welfare in Donkeys

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The AWIN welfare assessment protocol for horses

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The AWIN welfare assessment protocol for horses

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The AWIN welfare assessment protocol for donkeys

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The AWIN welfare assessment protocol for donkeys

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EZL Awareness video - prevention and treatment

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EZL Awareness video - prevention and treatment

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EZL Epizootic Lymphangitis awareness poster

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EZL Epizootic Lymphangitis awareness poster

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Donkey hoof disorders and their treatment

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Donkey hoof disorders and their treatment

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Why harness fitting and care are important to donkeys and owners | The Donkey Sanctuary Webinars

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Skin Diseases in Donkeys Diagnosis and Treatment | The Donkey Sanctuary Webinars

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Training the nervous or unhandled donkey

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Training the nervous or unhandled donkey

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Training the nervous or unhandled donkey

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Brooke Academy for Working Equids: Drug calculations and Pharmaceutical preparations

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Brooke Academy for Working Equids: Drug calculations and Pharmaceutical preparations

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In this course, you will learn what is needed to carry out a full clinical exam and understand the key details that can be obtained during a distance exam. You will also explore the key techniques used for evaluating different body systems, recall the vital parameters of working equids, and learn the areas for auscultation of the heart, lungs, and abdomen.

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Guidelines For The Management Of Farmed Donkeys: Husbandry and Environment

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Guidelines For The Management Of Farmed Donkeys: Husbandry and Environment

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Guidelines for Farmed Donkeys: Nutrition, Feeding and Water

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Guidelines for Farmed Donkeys: Nutrition, Feeding and Water

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Welfare, behaviour and handling of working equids

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Brooke Working Equid Veterinary Manual

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A free to download manual to guide field-based staff in assessing the welfare of working horses, donkeys and mules. Available in English, French and Spanish

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To provide a practical and context appropriate resource for specialists looking after working equids in the field

To provide a broad overview of what animal welfare is (Chapter I)

To describe welfare issues in more detail (topics in Chapter II)

Our Standardised Equine Based Welfare Assessment Tool (PDF, xkb) explains how we measure these, whilst here we explain why we measure them. Why it is a welfare issue, the significance to the animal, possible causation, and suggested means of resolution are described.

The topics include:

Animal health: eyes, mucous membranes, ectoparasites, body condition, nasal discharge, respiratory noise, spinal pain, body lesions, lip lesions, interference lesions, lameness, hoof shape and quality and frog health

Animal behaviour: apathy, fear and aggression

Poor human practices: hobbling, firing, mutilations, castration and underage working.

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The gharry horses of Ethiopia have some of the worst problems we see. They are shod badly with rubber tyres and worked hard on poorly maintained roads so they're frequently reshod, thus damaging their hooves more. Additionally, hooves were not being trimmed, resulting in overgrowth and imbalance which led to joint damage and pain. In 2014 a project was initiated to improve farriery services and to work with owners to ensure that horses' hooves were trimmed regularly.

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We train local farriers to provide welfare-friendly hoof trimming and shoeing services. We help them to promote their services, get access to local resources and create profitable businesses so their services will continue to help working equids in the future.

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Brooke Working Equid Manual

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A comprehensive, free to download book on the health and diseases of working equids. Suitable for animal health professionals.

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The Working Equid Veterinary Manual is a practical veterinary handbook for field-based vets caring for working horses, donkeys and mules in developing countries. It contains information on the common diseases and conditions of working equids, with clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment and approaches to prevention.

The manual offers an integrated approach to case management, with emphasis on good owner communication and context-specific information given for vets working with limited local resources. It stresses the importance of equine welfare throughout the clinical decision-making process.

Why has Brooke published the manual?

There are very few veterinary resources designed for use by animal healthcare professionals treating horses and donkeys in low resource settings.

We have published this book to:

provide a practical and context appropriate resource for vets and paravets looking after working equids in the field

raise awareness about working equine veterinary medicine and innovative solutions being used worldwide when resources are limited

share insight, information, pictures and case studies from the field.

Where has it been distributed to?

750 books have already been shipped to over 25 countries, including Pakistan, India, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Egypt, Rwanda, Jordan, Peru, Sudan, Nepal, Gambia, USA, and more are on the way.

The majority of the books have been sent to field vets and para-vets treating working horses and donkeys. The rest have been shared with key teaching institutions, opinion leaders and policy makers.

Who might be interested in reading it?

Vets and para-vets in developing countries. The book is written in English, and although our vets come from many different countries, most speak English as a second (or third) language.

Vets, welfare specialists and researchers in developed countries interested in working equids and veterinary medicine and welfare in developing countries.

Non-technical audiences. You don't need a veterinary degree to read this book, anyone who's interested in working equids, veterinary care/management in developing countries or simply wants to find out more about Brooke's work will also enjoy it.

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The pocket guide to working equid veterinary consultations

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The pocket guide to working equid veterinary consultations

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An easy to follow guide for performing clinical exams in working equids. Available to download in French, English and Spanish.

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Creating the pocket books was a truly collaborative effort with input from Brooke teams and partners from across the globe. Those working closely with animal health professionals through Brooke's Animal Health Mentoring Framework determined what would be most useful and the content of the book was created to reflect this. The use of high quality graphics, diagrams and step-by-step guides, makes this 26 page, A5 book engaging, practical and user-friendly. The pocket books are complimented by a downloadable and printable 'Clinical Record' template which can be used alongside the guide to record the findings of the consultation for future reference and as part of good clinical governance.

Distribution

The print version of the pocket book is already in use in Pakistan, India, Kenya and Tanzania, with more on the way to Ethiopia, Brooke West Africa and Brooke Latin America and Caribbean. English, French and Spanish electronic versions of the book are also available to download anywhere there is internet access. The 'Clinical Record' template is also available for download and printing below.

Ideal for vets and para-vets

Like Brooke's Working Equid Veterinary Manual it is suitable for vets and para-vets working in low and middle income countries. Unlike the Working Equid Veterinary Manual it is small and light enough to slip in a kit bag for reference to throughout day to day work.

Veterinary students and newly qualified vets may find it a useful reference to keep to hand.

Vets, welfare specialists and researches across the globe with an interest in working equid health and welfare.

Non- technical audiences. Anyone with an interest in working equid health and animal welfare will enjoy this creative book and learn more about the work Brooke does.

Please use the following reference to cite this document:

Brooke (2022) 'The pocket guide to working equid veterinary consultations'. (Chapter/topic name) p.(Pages used). Available at: www.thebrooke.org/our-work/working-equid-veterinary-consultations (Accessed: date accessed).

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The Pocket Guide to Working Equid Veterinary Consultations

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Lack of access to fresh water causes terrible suffering to working animals around the world, every single day. Water is becoming increasingly hard to find, and thousands of working horses, donkeys and mules are suffering as a result. Right now communities are struggling as the effects of the pandemic squeeze their already scant resources and, as global warming continues, this problem is ever more urgent.

Brooke is helping communities and their animals access clean water close to their homes, supporting the attainment of the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 6 - clean water and sanitation.

In Ethiopia, water pumps and cattle troughs built by Brooke are benefitting nearly 250,000 people in the Oromia region and 71, 500 people in the SNNP region. This new infrastructure is managed by water committees made up of local people, with the support of local authorities.

In La Esperanza community in Guatemala 's 'Dry Corridor' (a region suffering from severe water shortages), Brooke and its partner ESAP have constructed a water spring that has benefitted 150 animals and more than 200 families. This spring is the only source of safe water for the families in La Esperanza and neighbouring villages of El Cujito, El Morrito and La Candelaria.

In Burkina Faso, Brooke and our partner Inades-Formation Burkina have built a new borehole that includes a solar pump for people and a water trough for cattle in the village of Silmiougou. The new infrastructure provides clean drinking water to an estimated 5,000 people in Silmiougou and neighbouring villages of Tangasgo, Tansega and Tansablougou.

Maria, 40, said:

"Before, we had difficulty getting water. Now, with this borehole in the village (...) we have drinking water. Before, donkeys used to drink once or twice a day, now they can drink three to four times a day."

Many people may not realise that those living in rural areas of developing countries often have to travel vast distances to obtain fresh water, and for many this journey is made easier by owning a horse or donkey. The water is used by families for drinking, to cook, maintain basic hygiene standards, water crops and provide drinking water for other farm animals.

The water transported by working equids is used to irrigate crops. It is also given to other species of livestock. This helps the owners increase crop yield and livestock production, leading to improved livelihoods.

"Farming is made possible by donkeys. All household animals rely on donkeys which are the ones carrying and bringing feed and water for cows, chickens, sheep and goats."

- Participant from Brooke's 'Voices from Women' report.

In the groundnut basin and the sylvo-pastoral zone in Senegal, donkeys supply water to 400,000 small ruminants every day.

(Brooke West Africa, 2018)

In many communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America, women and girls have to walk long distances to fetch water from a water hole or a pump. This means they have less time for other tasks, and many girls are pulled out of school in order to help with water provision and other household chores. Equids are able to transport more water across large distances, freeing women's and girls' time for other activities, from community meetings to education, thus leading to greater gender empowerment.

In Pakistan, women who own a donkey cart can bring water, wood and fodder home in an hour and a half, as opposed to four hours for women who do not have a donkey.

- Brooke's 'Voices from Women' research project.

Brooke is calling on governments and international organisations to recognise the role of working livestock in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, including SDG 6 - clean water and sanitation.

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Horses, donkeys and mules vital in providing water

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Brooke Working Equid Veterinary Manual

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A series of short videos covering the zoonotic disease Glanders, keeping you and your animals safe and basic biosecurity measures.

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The International Coalition for Working Equids

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Course - Conceptos en salud equina - Nutrición 

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Conceptos en salud equina - Nutrición

El objetivo del curso es proveer al estudiante de una base conceptual y metodológica para diseñar un programa integral de nutrición para el equino. El curso tiene una duración de 3 horas.

Capacitador Regional

Carlos Torres

Médico veterinario clínico. He trabajado promoviendo el bienestar de los caballos de trabajo de zonas rurales y urbanas de Nicaragua, mi país, desde el año 2014. He trabajado fortaleciendo habilidades y conocimiento en proveedores de servicios locales, herradores y veterinarios de zonas rurales y urbanas. Actualmente vicecoordinador de CDCNICSA (institución que también se dedica a promover el bienestar de los animales de trabajo en Nicaragua en asociación con World Horse Welfare) y docente en la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias de la Universidad de Ciencias Comerciales UCC, Managua.

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Capacitador Regional

Josep Subirana

El Medico Subirana es el Capacitador de World Horse Welfare para la región Latinoamericana sobre temas de salud equina. Ha capacitado y trabajado con los equipos veterinarios de los nueve proyectos de bienestar equino que implementa World Horse Welfare en la región.

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COURSE - Conceptos en manejo equino - Establos

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COURSE - Conceptos en manejo equino - Establos

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Conceptos en manejo equino - Establos

El presente curso tiene como objetivo el de brindar los lineamientos básicos y generales para la construcción y manejo del caballo dentro del establo. El curso tiene una duración de tres horas.

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Josep Subirana

El Medico Subirana es el Capacitador de World Horse Welfare para la región Latinoamericana sobre temas de salud equina. Ha capacitado y trabajado con los equipos veterinarios de los nueve proyectos de bienestar equino que implementa World Horse Welfare en la región.

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El presente curso tiene como objetivo el de brindar los lineamientos básicos y generales para la construcción y manejo del caballo dentro del establo. El curso tiene una duración de tres horas. Josep Subirana El Medico Subirana es el Capacitador de World Horse Welfare para la región Latinoamericana sobre temas de salud equina.

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Webinar: Preparing for an emergency   equine first aid