Helio C Manso Filho, Keity L G Trindade, Carolina J F L Silva, Raissa K S Cruz, César F Vilela, Clarisse S Coelho, José D Ribeiro Filho, Helena E C C C Manso
Equestrian sports require precise animal welfare and health evaluations. To test the hypothesis that horses maintain their welfare when subjected to two three-barrel (3TB) races with 2 min intervals, an experiment was designed to evaluate their surface temperature using infrared thermography (IRT) in regions of interest (barrel, flank, neck, jaw, corner of the mouth, and ocular caruncle) and also measure blood biomarkers (hemogram, total plasma protein, fibrinogen, urea, creatinine, GGT, CK, cortisol, IL-6, and IL-1β)...
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