PREVALENCE OF STEREOTYPES AND NON DESIREDBEHAVIORS IN THE FINO CHILOTE HORSE IN THE REGION OF ARUCANIA, CHILE.

Abstract

The aim of the present work was to determine the prevalence of stereotypies conducts and conducts not wished in the chilote horse destined to hipoterapia in two therapeutic centers; CRICAR, school of hippotherapy of Carabineros, also observed wild in the property in the country “El Entierro” and Property in the country “Copin”; all located in the ninth district of the Araucanía, managing observing 33 equine ones of different sex and ages, these they were analyzed in his different habitat according to his routine of training, work and inclusive to herdsman.The raising of information fulfilled in the lands across a survey the managers of every land compiling information as type of manger, supply, water, upbringing, routine of training and works realized by every individual; in addition the summary of information was effected by means of direct observation by the method of focal sampling by scanning during a time of 24 hours, methodology annotated to described by Tadich and col (2010).The stereotyped observed conducts were of the most frequent three: to stroll stereotyped, aerophagia and balancing of the later train, in addition abnormal conducts were registered: I slap, to bite, crib bitting, to eat the bed and nod. All this information was deposited to the correspondent schedule Excel where they were analyzed through the program SPSS 20 to obtain the results of the descriptive statistics.The presentation of these conducts not wished in the individuals was related to the conditions of stabling since they do not present contact with his couples, time of supply, origin of the food, physical restriction, lacking in stimulation, situations of stress those that in add up to lead to a detriment of the well-being of these horses what unleashes the expression of these conducts. The statistical analysis I realize by means of the test chi-squared, who considers a result to be significant p≤0,05 and not significantly a value p≥0,05.Respect of the prevalence’s observed for conducts stereotyped in horses destined to hippotherapy was 57% and in case of the horses chilotes wild it was of 0 %; in case of the conducts not wished on the part of the horses that realize routines of hippotherapy I observe % and the wild horses % I observe the presence of these conducts in foals in spite of his short age and in wild in spite of the poor interference of the man in his habitat. Principally in case of the wild ones one believes that the conducts considered since abnormal in some of the cases they would correspond to his normal behavior.