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Study Suggests Sedation, Whip Use May Lead To Trailering Trouble Sponsored by: Trouble getting a horse on a trailer is common; it often takes time and patience to get a horse to the point where he will load and travel well. However, if the horse needs to get on a trailer and you don't have multiple hours or days to work with him, there are quite a few tricks horse handlers can use, employing everything from feed to brooms to whips to sedation to get him in the trailer. Nearly 14.5 percent of responders to an Italian study indicated that they had issues loading horses in their care o...

Horsetalk.co.nz Risk of horse injuries during loading increases if a whip is used, researchers find Problem behaviors were reported by 14.45% of the 148 respondents in an Italian study on equine transportation. The use of a whip during the loading of horses was one of several factors linked in an Italian study to an increased likelihood of horse injuries during transport. The findings, reported in the journal Animals, were based on data obtained through an online survey comprising 37 questions that targeted Italian residents with first-hand involvement in the road transport of horse...