Stable Science from Dr David Marlin's Animalweb

Latest Episodes:

Dr Gillian Tabor reviews the latest research on how haynets affect horses - Mon 21/11/22 Nov 21, 2022

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Dr Gillian Tabor is a charted physiotherapist specialising in the treatment and rehabilitation of horses. In this podcast, Gillian reviews a very recent research paper, Posture and Pull Pressure by Horses When Eating Hay or Haylage from a Hay Net Hung at Various Positions by Hodgson and colleagues. Through her research review, Gillian poses questions about how feeding from haynets differs from how wild horses graze on grass and occasionally on bushes/trees.

The study looked at height of haynets, the pressure exerted by horses, the difference between hay and haylage and how double-haynets affect the horse's feeding practice.

Questions asked:

Does hay or haylage affect how a horse eats, taking forage from a haynet?
Does the height of a haynet affect the horse?
With the frustration of feeding from haynets does this encourage the horse to exert more pressure?
And how does all of the above affect the horse's musculoskeletal system and the way their teeth work/move?

Gillian and the researchers compare our domesticated horses to wild horses, what we feed them and how we provide that feed whilst trying to ensure they are getting a suitable type of forage, amount of forage and regularity of forage without causing weight/obesity issues (and the associated detrimental health effects of this), whilst ensuring they get enough forage to protect against stomach issues and ulcers.

Gillian reviews the research to help us find the answers so that we can care for our horses in a way that improves their lives.

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David's Weekly Round-Up on Mon 14/11/22 Nov 14, 2022

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Dr David Marlin Rounds Up his week - talking to us about all his different passions and work in Horse Welfare.

Svend Kold - David is sad to hear of his passing, and reminisces about the times they worked together.
David has been working with Tracy Bye at Loughborough University on Rider Balance.
Data analysis for the FEI for the Asian Games next year and Paris 2024.
David attended the Farriers Conference at Stoneleigh to present a talk and discuss his work with them.
He has been working with Helen Reynolds, Thermographer on reports from the Tokyo Olympics.
David has been working on a new project with World leading experts looking at laterality, it is an exciting new international project.
As President of The Sport Horse Welfare Foundation David has helped launched the new Delphi Project, where over 70 professionals from around the world are coming together.
David discusses what is coming up for DrDavidMarlin.com members with research on rugging and results of a study now produced for easy understanding.
Lucinda Green has been in touch with David to involve him in a few new events, and they discussed eventing and the new formats.
Eventing's MIMClip - David got to speak to the inventor and chat about his history, recent research into the clip and how many wonder whether the safety clip decided Michael Jung's Olympic medals in Tokyo.
Finishing with a little about his upcoming trip to London for the Royal Society of Innovation in Sport.

David is very busy, and by sharing a little about his week, we hope you can see how science in sport is affecting and developing our everyday horse sport and all our horses' lives.

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Muscle Inhibition and building topline Aug 09, 2022

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A short podcast on a reason why your horse might not be building topline.

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Dr David Marlin - Electrolytes for horses Jul 18, 2022

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Electrolytes are essential for health and performance. But this is a topic that is poorly understood with large amounts of misleading advice circulating on the internet and social media. It doesn’t need to be like this. In this 30min podcast we will explore some basics, discuss what to feed (when and why) and dispel the myths.

Electrolytes are involved in many bodily functions including regulating thirst, allowing nerves to work, helping muscles contract, forming bone andteeth), are involved in energy production and other chemical processes, DNA and RNA formation and stomach acid production.

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Saddle Fitting discussed by an equine physiotherapist - Dr Gillian Tabor May 04, 2022

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Why does my Horse Cough by Dr David Marlin Mar 01, 2022

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Dr David Marlin discusses why does your horse cough.

A cough in one form or another is something we hear a lot whether it's us, the family member, horses, cat, dog, we all recognise what a cough is of course during covid anyone coughing, gets a very wide berth.

But what is a cough and what's his function?

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Nutrition by Dr David Marlin Mar 01, 2022

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Dr David Marlin discusses the topic of Nutrition

This podcast is loosely based around a Facebook Live event done by Dr David Marlin recently.

Nutrition and specifically looking at the sort of information David has collected over the past 5 to 10 years from horse owners on the problems that they have with their horses, particularly from a nutrition point of view.

The nutrition questionnaire that David used with horse owners is around 50 questions long and it asks a wide variety of questions, starting with questions about the horse, its temperament age, sex breed, things like that, what it's used for, what sort of feeds it's on what sort of work it's in Vaccination, teeth illness, all sorts of questions like that.

In this podcast, David will be discussing the sort of things that these questionnaires have thrown up and also what the most common advice David would give.

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Respiratory Problems in Horses by Dr David Marlin Mar 01, 2022

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Dr David Marlin discusses the topic of Respiratory Problems in Horses.

How to recognise, manage and avoid and what we're going to cover is what does the respiratory system do?

How's it put together?

What causes respiratory problems?

How can we avoid respiratory problems and how can we manage and treat respiratory problems once they occur?

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Vaccinations Q&A by Dr Kirstie Pickles Feb 28, 2022

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Dr Kirstie Pickles discusses and answers attendes questions on the topic of Vaccinations.

Answering questions such as;

Q. Can vaccines cause issues for a horse that suffers with allergies if they are given at the time of year?

Q. Are we over vaccinating? And are annual boosters really necessary?

Q. Are annual boosters buying in an older retired horse?

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Discussing Cupping Therapy by Dr. Gillian Tabor Feb 22, 2022

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Dr. Gillian Tabor discusses the topic of Cupping for horses.

Cupping has been around for thousands of years, but past anecdotal and hearsay what evidence and research are there and what are Dr. Gillian Tabor’s thoughts are about this style of therapy.

Is it positive or detrimental? Does it improve recovery or damage the tissue?

Gillian looks at the history of cupping, what cupping actually does to the body, the different ways of administrating cupping and what limited research there is investigating cupping.

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