Special Issue "The Welfare of Working Equids"

A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Equids".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Camie Heleski
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Guest Editor
Equine Programs, Animal Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
Interests: equine behavior; equine welfare; horse-human interactions; working equids
Dr. Amy McLean
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Guest Editor
Department of Animal Science, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Interests: donkey behavior/welfare; mule behavior/welfare; working equids
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Dr. Ahmed Badr Ali
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Guest Editor
Animal & Veterinary Sciences Department, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA
Interests: working equids; poultry behavior/welfare; dairy cattle behavior/welfare

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

You have been invited to submit an article for this Special Issue on “The Welfare of Working Equids” both due to your expertise in the topic area and because of your passion for these often-overlooked beasts of burden. I fell in love with these heroes of developing regions of the world twenty years ago. They have taken me from rural villages in Mexico and Honduras to urban regions in Brazil and Mali—not to mention the brick kilns of Egypt. These stoic equids never cease to amaze me, as do their owners/handlers. Equids’ lives are often challenging, yet the efforts that all of you have engaged in, both in terms of research projects and outreach projects, can dramatically enhance the welfare (and sometimes also the productivity) of these horses, donkeys, mules, and hinnies.

Contributions may focus on animal and veterinary-science-oriented topic areas and might center on equine welfare, health, husbandry, and behavior, but submissions might also incorporate agricultural economics, sustainability issues, social science aspects or sociology concepts. We invite original research and review papers that will help us continue to advance this field. The global pandemic of COVID-19 has created many challenges for the working equid community and those who rely upon them. Many of the usual service trips to provide health services and educational outreach have been put on hold. I encourage you, while you are waiting for “things to get back to normal”, to take this opportunity to write about your work and contribute to this Special Issue.

Dr. Camie Heleski
Dr. Amy McLean
Dr. Ahmed Badr Ali
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Animals is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • working equids
  • donkey behavior/welfare
  • mule behavior/welfare

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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