Multiple investigations have found that the captive bolt – a cattle gun method of stunning horses – sometimes fails to render horses unconscious before they're hung upside down and butchered.
Dr. Gilman developed a method of identifying horses, equivalent to human fingerprinting, that is still used to help detect "ringers" -- that is, impostors -- by taking photographs of vestigial growths, known as chestnuts or night eyes, that every horse has on the inside of its legs and that are unique to each.
For comparison, the first 62 horses were examined blind by both palpation and radiology, later only by radiology since palpation proved to be a very uncertain method of identifying horses with OUC and of separating different grades of OUC.
An elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. William Gamble, had gone holiday shopping taking their preferred method of travel, their horse and buggy.
The trainer should not use a lunging whip or any other method of incentivizing the horse to go forward.
She still uses vaquero-influenced methods of training horses, though she has adapted her technique over the years to fit the character of the Arabian horse, which she views as a horse breed requiring a smart yet gentle approach.
The idea of exploiting triglyceride content as a marker for horse meat is not new: Paschke (1938) introduced a chemical method for the detection of horse meat in mixtures with beef, mutton or pork based on the relatively high level of linolenic acid, C18 3, in horse fat.
This remains the primary method of removing excess horses and burros from managed land.
That was the method of pleading, cajolery, horse-trading, threatening, thoughtfulness, and downright seduction that LBJ used to get what he wanted.
Four methods of ranking horses on reactivity were evaluated and compared: isolation from conspecifics, presentation of a static novel stimulus, traversing a novel stimulus in a runway (isolation, novel stimulus and runway tests, respectively) and assigning subjective emotionality scores.
