Building Connections in the World of Equine Well-Being

Join us on May 1, 2024 at Noon (EST) as Gayle Ecker and Nicolas de Brauwere discuss with participants the need to build connections in the world of Equine Well-Being.

Are We Listening?

To the Horses?

To the Researchers?

To the Public?

Building connections in the world of equine well-being often starts with asking the important questions. In this presentation/panel discussion, we will start with an important question and add in sources of information that we should value in our quest for better welfare for our horses.

Gayle Ecker – Gayle Ecker, Hon. B.A., B.Ed., M.Sc., Cert. KMb

Director of Equine Guelph; Welfare Educator/Trainer; Associate Faculty of Campbell Centre for Study of Animal Welfare

Gayle is the Director of Equine Guelph and played an instrumental role in its birth and ongoing development as a Centre for the horse owner at the University of Guelph. Her Masters focused on fluid and electrolyte losses in endurance and eventing horses, and she was part of the On To Atlanta research initiative to study acclimation to heat and humidity. She has dedicated her energies to advancing the equine industry through education and communications on health, welfare and safety. In collaboration with the Office of Open Learning, she led the development of the first online Diploma and Certificate programs, along with the EquiMania! youth education program and other pathways of learning for the horse industry.

Nicolas de Brauwere MRCVS

Head of Welfare and Behaviour
Redwings Horse Sanctuary

Nic graduated as a veterinary surgeon in 1991 from Onderstepoort in South Africa. He has worked at Redwings Horse Sanctuary for more than 27 years providing clinical services, herd health management and equine welfare case work both to facilitate rescue and alleviate the need for it.

As Head of Welfare and Behaviour at Redwings, Nic leads a team that has specialized in the rescue, rehabilitation and long-term care of feral, unhandled or mistreated horses for more than a decade and this extensive experience has fundamentally informed the charity’s approach not only to equine health and welfare but equine behavior and training too.

In particular, Nic’s extensive experience working in the field of equine welfare led to his appointment as the Chairman of the National Equine Welfare Council in 2009, an umbrella organization for equine rescue centres and sanctuaries across the UK.

Nic has been involved in consultations on many areas of animal welfare policy; most notably in this context he worked with the Welsh Government between 2012 and 2014 to assist them in drafting the Control of Horses (Wales) Act, which became law in Wales in 2014 and helped energize the commitment to an English equivalent that came into force the following year.

He’s a recognized expert in the infectious disease Strangles, presenting at the Havemeyer International workshops on the disease in 2019 as well as teaching vets in the UK.

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Topic: May EWB Webinar

Time: May 1, 2024 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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