Creating a Low-Stress Environment for Your Horse

Learn how to improve your horses' welfare through these daily management practices and training techniques.
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In this episode, Camie Heleski, PhD, of the University of Kentucky, in Lexington, explains how to create a low-stress environment for the horses in your barn. She describes how we can adjust daily practices to reduce horses’ stress, using positive reinforcement training when handling horses, and why looking at situations from the horse’s perspective can improve equine welfare.

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