Could work be a source of behavioural disorders? A study in horses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Hausberger, Martine ^a   Gautier, Emmanuel ^a   Biquand, Véronique ^a   Lunel, Christophe ^a   Jégo, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BREED; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HORSE; JOB STRESS; LICKING; NONHUMAN; STEREOTYPY; SUCKING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; BREEDING; HORSE DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BREEDING; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MENTAL DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 70449568935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007625     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. O'Brien A, Terry DJ, Jimmieson NL (2008) Negative affectivity and responses to work stressors: an experimental study. Anxiety, stress and coping 21: 55-83.
2. Bolger N, de Longis A, Kessler RC, Schilling EA (1989) Effects of daily stress on negative mood. JPSP 57: 808-818.
3. Houtman IL, Bongers PM, Smulders PG, Kompier MA (1994) Psychosocial stressors at work and musculoskeletal problems. Scand J Work Environ Health 20(2): 139-145.
4. Schaubroeck J, Jones R (2000) Antecendents of workplace emotional labor dimensions and moderators of their effects on physical symptoms. J Organiz Behav 21: 163-183.
5. Mann S (2004) "People-work": emotion management, stress and coping. Brit J Guid Counselling 32: 205-221.
6. Hausberger M, Roche H, Henry S, Visser EK (2008) A review of the Human-Horse relationship. Appl Anim Behav Sci 109: 1-24.
7. McGreevy PD, Mc Lean A (2005) Behavioural problems with the ridden horse. In: Mills DS, McDonnell SM, eds. The Domestic Horse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp 196-211.
8. Ödberg FO, Bouissou MF (1999) The development of equestrianism from the baroque period to the present day and its consequences for the welfare of horses. Eq Vet J 28: 26-30.
9. Hall C, Goodwin D, Heleski C, Randle H, Waran N (2008) Is there evidence of learned helplessness in horses? J Appl Anim Welfare Sci 11: 249-266.
10. Iverson RD, Olekalno M, Erwin PJ (1998) Affectivity, organizational stressors and absenteeism : a causal model of burnout and its consequences. J Voc Behav 52: 1-23.
11. Mason G, Latham N (2004) Can't stop, won't stop: is stereotypy a reliable animal welfare indicator? In: Kirkwood JK, Roberts EA, Vickery S, eds. Porc of UFAW Int. Symp. Science Service Anim Welfare. Anim Welfare 13: 57-69.
12. Mason G, Rushen J (2007) Stereotypic behaviour in captive animals: fundamentals and applications for welfare (2nd ed.). Wallingford: CAB International.
13. Mason G, Clubb R, Latham N, Vickery S (2006) What and how should we use environmental enrichment to tackle stereotypic behaviour. Appl Anim Behav Sci 102: 163-188.
14. Cooper JJ, Mason G (1998) The identification of abnormal behaviour and behavioural problems in stabled horses and their relationship to horse welfare: a comparative review. Eq Vet J 27: 5-9.
15. Mason GJ (1991) Stereotypies: a critical review. Anim Behav 41: 1015-1037.
16. Luescher UA, McKeown DB, Dean H (1998) A cross-sectional study on compulsive behaviour (stable vices) in horses. Eq Vet J 27: 14-18.
17. Cooper JJ, McDonald L, Mills DS (2000) The effect of increasing visual horizons on stereotypic weaving : implications for the social housing of stabled horses. Appl Anim Behav Sci 69: 67-83.
18. Goodwin D, Davidson HP, Harris P (2002) Foraging enrichment for stabled horses: effects on behaviour and selection. Eq Vet J 34: 686-691.
19. Waters AJ, Nicol CJ, French NP (2002) Factors influencing the development of stereotypic and redirected behaviours in young horses: finding of a four year prospective epidemiological study. Eq Vet J 34: 572-9.
20. Broom DM, Kennedy MJ (1993) Stereotypies in horses: their relevance to welfare and causation. Eq Vet Ed 5: 151-153.
21. Hausberger M, Richard MA (2005) Individual differences in the domestic horse, origins,development and stability. In: Mills DS, McDonnell SM, eds. The Domestic Horse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp 33-53.
22. Mills DS (2005) Repetitive movement problems in the horse. In: Mills DS, McDonnell SM, eds. The Domestic Horse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp 212-227.
23. McGreevy PD, French NP, Nicol CJ (1995a) The prevalence of abnormal behaviours in dressage, eventing and endurance horses in relation to stabling. Vet Rec 137: 36-7.
24. Christie JL, Hewson CJ, Riley CB, McNiven MA, Dohoo IR, et al. (2006) Management factors affecting stereotypies and body condition score in nonracing horses in Prince Edward Island. Can Vet J 47: 136-143.
25. Mills DS, Alston RD, Rogers V, Longford NT (2002) Factors associated with the prevalence of stereotypic behaviour amongst thoroughbred horses passing through auctioneer sales. Appl Anim Behav Sci 78: 115-124.
26. Hausberger M, Bruderer C, Le Scolan N, Pierre JS (2004) The interplay of environmental and genetic factors in temperament/personality traits of horses. J Comp Psy 118: 434-446.
27. von Borstel U, Duncan IJH, Shoveller AK, Merkies K, Keeling LJ, et al. (2008) Impact of riding in a coercively obtained Rollkur posture on welfare and fear of performance horses. Appl Anim Behav Sci 116: 228-236.
28. Hausberger M, Gautier E, Müller C, Jego P (2007) Lower learning abilities in stereotypic horses. Appl Anim Behav Sci 107: 299-306.
29. Heleski CR, Shelle AC, Nielsen BD, Zanella AJ (2002) Influence of housing on weanling horse behavior and subsequent welfare. Appl Anim Behav Sci 78: 291-302.
30. Hutri M, Lindeman M (2002) The role of stress and negative emotions in an occupational crisis. J Career Dev 29: 19-36.
31. Ödberg FO (1978) Abnormal behaviours: stereotypies. Madrid: Proc 1st World Congress on Ethology as Applied to Zootechnies 1: 475-480.
32. Fraser AF (1992) Abnormal and anomalous behaviour: the behaviour of the horse. Wallingford: CAB International. 288 p.
33. Cook WR (1999) Pathophysiology of bit control in the horse. J Eq Vet Sci 19: 196-205.
34. Cook WR (2003) Bit-induced pain: a cause of fear, flight, fight and facial neuralgia in the horse. Pferdeheilkunde 19: 1-8.
35. Madigan JE, Bell SA (1998) Characterisation of headshaking syndrome-31 cases. Eq Vet J 27: 28-29.
36. Newton SA, Knottenbelt DC, Eldrige PR (2000) Headshaking in horses: possible aetiopathogenesis suggested by the results of diagnostic tests and several treatment regimes used in 20 cases. Eq Vet J 32: 208-216.
37. Cook WR (2002) Bit-induced asphyxia in the horse. J EqVet Sci 22: 7-14.
38. Sankey C, Henry S, Fureix C, Richard MA, Hausberger M (2008) Reinforcement as a mediator of the perception of humans by horses ( Equus caballus). Anim Cogn (in revision).
39. Benhajali H, Richard-Yris MA, Leroux M, Ezzaouia M, Charfi F, et al. (2008) A note on the time budget and social behaviour of densely housed horses. A case study in Arab breeding mares. Appl Anim Behav Sci 112: 196-200.
40. Nicol CJ, Davidson HP, Harris PA, Waters AJ, Wilson AD (2002) Study of cribbiting and gastric inflammation and ulceration in young horses. Vet Rec 151: 658-662.
41. Ödberg FO (1987) Chronic stress in riding horses. Equine Vet J 19: 268-269.
42. Altman J (1974) Observational study of behaviour: sampling methods. Behav 19: 227-267.
43. Mills DS, Macleod CA (2002) The response of crib-biting and windsucking in horses to dietary supplementation with an antacid mixture. Ippologia 13: 33-41.