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A demographic survey of unwanted horses in Ireland in 2011 and totals for 2012 and a comparison with 2010
This report compiles the available information on unwanted horses in Ireland for 2011 and 2012 and builds upon the previous report for the period 2005 to 2010. Similar trends are present in the high value responsible ownership category and the practicing veterinary profession although extensively in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3843573/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24156381 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2046-0481-66-20 |
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author | Leadon, Desmond P Jeffery, Rebecca O’Toole, Dylan Duggan, Vivienne |
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description | This report compiles the available information on unwanted horses in Ireland for 2011 and 2012 and builds upon the previous report for the period 2005 to 2010. Similar trends are present in the high value responsible ownership category and the practicing veterinary profession although extensively involved in horse welfare, euthanises a small proportion of Ireland’s unwanted horses. Welfare groups have limited resources and a limited ability to deal with such an extensive problem, which has involved very large numbers of horses. Local authorities continue to have to devote significant efforts and calls on public finances to deal with unwanted horses. Those that they have to deal with are, in the main, not identifiable by either passports or microchips. Category 2 plants and abattoirs continue to provide the principal means of disposal of unwanted horses. The need for abattoirs continues to increase and it is essential that these facilities remain in operation. They processed more than 49,000 horses between 2010 and 2012. The samples they have to submit for Trichinella testing are the most sensitive indicator of the extent of the unwanted horse problem and the most immediate source of information on when it may begin to abate. Trichinella sample numbers and this by inference, horses ponies and donkeys sent to slaughter have fallen by some 35% from 2012 numbers, in the year to date (2013). This may reflect the commercial decision to cease horse slaughter by two slaughterhouses that had hitherto provided this service. Their commercial decision was not in any way related to the identification of fraudulent mislabeled beef in other plants. |
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spelling | pubmed-38435732013-11-30 A demographic survey of unwanted horses in Ireland in 2011 and totals for 2012 and a comparison with 2010 Leadon, Desmond P Jeffery, Rebecca O’Toole, Dylan Duggan, Vivienne Ir Vet J Research This report compiles the available information on unwanted horses in Ireland for 2011 and 2012 and builds upon the previous report for the period 2005 to 2010. Similar trends are present in the high value responsible ownership category and the practicing veterinary profession although extensively involved in horse welfare, euthanises a small proportion of Ireland’s unwanted horses. Welfare groups have limited resources and a limited ability to deal with such an extensive problem, which has involved very large numbers of horses. Local authorities continue to have to devote significant efforts and calls on public finances to deal with unwanted horses. Those that they have to deal with are, in the main, not identifiable by either passports or microchips. Category 2 plants and abattoirs continue to provide the principal means of disposal of unwanted horses. The need for abattoirs continues to increase and it is essential that these facilities remain in operation. They processed more than 49,000 horses between 2010 and 2012. The samples they have to submit for Trichinella testing are the most sensitive indicator of the extent of the unwanted horse problem and the most immediate source of information on when it may begin to abate. Trichinella sample numbers and this by inference, horses ponies and donkeys sent to slaughter have fallen by some 35% from 2012 numbers, in the year to date (2013). This may reflect the commercial decision to cease horse slaughter by two slaughterhouses that had hitherto provided this service. Their commercial decision was not in any way related to the identification of fraudulent mislabeled beef in other plants. BioMed Central 2013-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3843573/ /pubmed/24156381 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2046-0481-66-20 Text en Copyright © 2013 Leadon et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Leadon, Desmond P Jeffery, Rebecca O’Toole, Dylan Duggan, Vivienne A demographic survey of unwanted horses in Ireland in 2011 and totals for 2012 and a comparison with 2010 |
title | A demographic survey of unwanted horses in Ireland in 2011 and totals for 2012 and a comparison with 2010 |
title_full | A demographic survey of unwanted horses in Ireland in 2011 and totals for 2012 and a comparison with 2010 |
title_fullStr | A demographic survey of unwanted horses in Ireland in 2011 and totals for 2012 and a comparison with 2010 |
title_full_unstemmed | A demographic survey of unwanted horses in Ireland in 2011 and totals for 2012 and a comparison with 2010 |
title_short | A demographic survey of unwanted horses in Ireland in 2011 and totals for 2012 and a comparison with 2010 |
title_sort | demographic survey of unwanted horses in ireland in 2011 and totals for 2012 and a comparison with 2010 |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3843573/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24156381 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2046-0481-66-20 |
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