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Ageing in horses and related problems
Tomašková, Jana ; Hofmanová, Barbora (advisor) ; Majzlík, Ivan (referee)
SUMMARY This bachelor thesis includes general informations about process of aging in horses and related problems. Very good question is how we can define an old horse, however without definitive answer. At the beginning, there are knowledges about when aging occurs in horses by various authors. Then there are mentioned changes at feeding old horses and diseases that afflict horses with increasing age. With growing number of equine geriatric population abroad some surveys and studies of aged horses were made and brought important results. At the conclusion, ethic issues can´t be leave out and what an euthanasia means for horse´s owners and veterinarians. Approach a situation in our region, a number of registered aged horses in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany are published.

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