Dansk Køre Forbund - The Danish Driving Federation hosted the FECTU AGM in 2024. Representatives of the organizations "IG Arbeitspferde" from Switzerland, "ÖIPK" from Austria, "Lithuanian Draft Horse Breeders Association" from Lithuania and the "British Horse Loggers" from Great Britain were present at the open-air museum Hjerl Hede in Vinderup. New elections were held at this year's General Assembly. The current president Joao Rodriguez from Portugal and long-term president Pit Schlechter...

FECTU Webinar with Francesca Compostella Welfare regulation: A black and white affair? Exploring 50 shades of welfare. A discussion of the impact of welfare regulations in developing countries.

FECTU launches the new edition of the FECTU booklet Working equids: Working horses, donkeys and mules - an alternative with future. This new version can be found here on Flipbook. https://www.flipbookpdf.net/web/site/2e34252a591279b072ae91368d81518402c5a586202212.pdf.html#page/1

FECTU Webinar with Sofia Ramos: Draft horse common problems Sofia performed several externships abroad (UK, USA, Belgium) before qualifing from UTAD, Portugal in 2013. After one year working in a mix practice (2014-2015) she did an internship in equine medicine and surgery in Belgium (DeMorette). Straight afterwards the internship she moved to the University of Pretoria as equine surgery assistant. In 2017 she moved back to her homeland and developed research in equine orthopedic disease as...

From 26th - 28th of August the European logging championship took place in Liebenfels in Carinthia (Austria)

Save the date for the next Webinar: on Wednesday the 27 July 2022 at 18.00 CET Ariadna Nieto Espinet and Ada Torra Burgués will talk about the CENTAURO project: Here is the link for the zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86292664953?pwd=Zjcrb0pDVUtQMUdsVDhpWm9GK25nUT09

The webinar will take place on the 9th of June, 6 pm CET. Here is the link for the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84993343589?pwd=MnprWkJzVmxiWU55RjE3eUFseFJOZz09 Speaker: Sofia Ramos Sofia performed several externships abroad (UK, USA, Belgium) before qualifing from UTAD, Portugal in 2013. After one year working in a mix practice (2014-2015) she did an internship in equine medicine and surgery in Belgium (DeMorette). Straight afterwards the internship she moved to the University of...

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“Use of Donkey in 21st century French gardening farms”, by Domitille Fouvez and Clémentine Bonnin Domitille Fouvez is an agriculture engineer graduated from Bordeaux Sciences Agro. She has been working on the CoolÂne project since 2020 and is currently employed by SFET (Société Française des Equidés de Travail) where she works on several other technical and scientific projects including working equids caracterization and welfare.

In our next Webinar João Rodrigues will talk about the evaluation of collar types used on working donkeys in Europe.