The Brooke/DCA Partnership on Equine Animal Welfare

The partnership between the Brooke Hospital for Animals and DCA-VET was first contracted for one year in April 2008.

The Brooke Hospital for Animals is a UK registered charitable organization, which aims to improve the welfare of working

equine animals in developing countries.

In 2008, refresher courses on equine health were developed under the partnership.

These courses are now part of the regular series of DCA-VET refresher courses.

In April 2009,  DCA-VET and The Brooke extended their partnership by a second year.

This year, the project focused on training of 12 paravets in equine health care as well

as in an equine welfare targeted extension programme. The trained  paravets treated

equines and organized monthly extension sessions on equine welfare and husbandry.

Some 700 selected equine owners attended the sessions and received enough awareness

and knowledge on equine health, husbandry and preventive management to be able to

apply this knowledge in the daily care of their animals.

In 2010, a third year was added to the partnership. This year, another 13 paravets will

be trained in equine care and extension. Also Brooke will extend the activities to more

provinces; the focus will be on linking the communities of equine owners effectively

with the service providers like paravets.

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Latest revision 07 July 2010