To the “horse owners”: The suspected suffering of infectious diseases should not be shared.
To the “organizers”: Preventing “nose-to-nose” contact, allocating places for vehicles to park. Quarantine after returning from “14 to 21 days”, measuring temperatures twice a day, and cleaning …
To participate in horse competitions,” Beauty tournaments, speed races, endurance races, show jumping races”, is of particular importance to those in charge of them from the participants, organizers and observers. Therefore, the responsibility to maintain the biological safety and biosecurity of the horses, and not to endanger their health, is at the forefront of the priorities for launching these events.
Horses during competitions and championships have the ability to spread infectious diseases if they are suffering from them, and all participants in the event bear responsibility, so it is imperative that horse owners not participate or bring horses suspected of suffering from infectious diseases or were in contact with others suffering from these diseases.
Competition organizers must take into account the application of horse safety standards and the prevention of disease spread during these competitions by implementing a biosecurity strategy to manage the risks of their spread and reduce them to a minimum, as the most important of which are:
The presence of a specialist veterinarian during the competition period, and stables monitors whenever possible to report any symptoms that may appear, and to reduce public access to the places of residence of the horses. And to distribute the stables as much as possible in such a way as to prevent the horse from contacting through the nose “nose to nose” to reduce the spread of respiratory diseases that can be transmitted through breathing, and to provide separate parking spaces for cars and horse carriages not designated from the public car places, and to provide one entrance and exit for the competition for horse carriages only There are adequate facilities for washing the horses, others sufficient for washing hands, and sufficient water faucets for the horse to drink.
The organizer of the competition or horse event must maintain the details of the participants and their horses, including: the address, name and phone number of the owner or the person responsible for it, a description of each horse, the registered name of each horse and the electronic chip number including a copy of the passport or registration certificate that It has all its data and descriptions.
Horse owners have the greatest and main responsibility for biosecurity in competitions and special events, well in advance of the event before their horses arrive at the events, where the horse vaccination program must be maintained, in addition to isolating any new horses coming to the stable for a period of 14 to 21 days, and following the methods. Good hygiene from washing hands with soap and water, using antiseptic solutions immediately after handling the horse, and checking that the horse eats and drinks normally.
The horse must also be consciously monitored for the horse’s health, especially during the three to five days before the competition, and to check any change in its behavior, check for any unusual nasal secretions, and any cough or cough, and check the horse’s temperature for a period of 3 days before the competition “Medium The horse’s temperature is from 37.2 to 38.3 degrees – foals and foals from 37.6 to 38.7 degrees. Wash the horse before departure to the competition, making sure the carriages are cleaned and sterilized with disinfectants and detergents before transporting
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As for competitions and championships, horse owners must make sure that a thermometer is present, to check the horse’s temperature, and not to share feed or water drinking with other owners’ horses, and not to share cleaning tools or display tools.
And all that is related to horses from other horses, “not to participate at all”, and if there are enough accommodation rooms more than the number of participating horses, it is preferable to leave a room distance between the owner’s participating horses and the other participating horses, and if the rooms are full, take into account as much as possible to avoid touching the horses. Nose to nose with other horses with the possibility of installing linoleum or some physical barrier if possible.
With the end of the competition and the horse’s return to the stable or stall, the horse must be quarantined after its return to the stable or training center after the event, a place separate from the horses in the stable for a period of 14 to 21 days to ensure that no symptoms appear, and the temperature is measured twice a day during a period Stone “morning and evening”, in addition to cleaning and sterilizing horse-transporting carts as soon as the horses arrive from the competition.
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