Equine Welfare
working to improve welfare in showing
What is welfare?
Equine animal welfare is the practice of meeting a horse's physical and mental needs to prevent suffering and allow them to live in a healthy, natural state, encompassing a suitable environment, diet, freedom from pain, and the ability to express normal behaviours and social interactions.
Key aspects include providing appropriate housing, nutrition, social contact with other horses, protection from disease, and regular veterinary care, ensuring the horse's well-being in all aspects of its life.
TSC Welfare Guidance
unified rules, working together in showing
The Showing Council has produced a document known as the "Welfare Guidance Unified Rules" and represents welfare-led best practice guidance in keeping with our wish to uphold our Social Licence to Operate.
This document has been developed to support responsible ownership, promote best practice, and will continually seek to support improvement of the ways in which we keep our horses by prioritising their wellbeing. A scientific evidence base, supports its recommendations and will be reviewed annually as new evidence emerges.
If a Member Body of The Showing Council decides they do not wish to follow this guidance, the responsibility and the liability shall be their own. A guidance document, such as this, can be used as a benchmark for standards when used within a court of law.
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